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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (64692)	7/16/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Fred Fahmy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, <with AMD the point is every sale AMD makes is a lost sale for Intel. Were it not for competition ,however weak and inept, Intel could charge higher prices. mike> Can't argue with that, but that's not what I call "kicking Intel's butt". Sooner or later everyone has to have competition. How you deal with your competition is what is important. I think Intel is handling AMD quite nicely. I'm sure that AMD naively believed that when they first began their 25% below Intel pricing policy that Intel would just roll over and concede some market share instead of trying to close the price gap. Wow...what a miscalculation. This wasn't the only strategy available, but it was the strategy that Jerry's ego pursued. Here is another approach an underdog can take against an industry giant: exchange2000.com Personally, I think AMD is good for the industry, good for the consumer, and good for Intel. I don't want to see them fold or get bought out, but unless Jerry departs this company has even darker days ahead. FF