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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (66235)	7/20/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585756

Re: "I already explained to you that this was not about partnership, it was about industry freedom of choice, stability of product cycles, and customer satisfaction. What part of this is hard for you to understand?" This is not a matter of misunderstanding but rather disagreeing. The requirement for a second source ended. Good bad or otherwise, Intel didn't need a second source anymore so they stopped giving AMD free money. AMD survived a few more years on legal technicalities and handouts but by the time they were forced to stand on their own two feet it's been an ocean of red ink ever since. All AMD processor designs have been terrible business failures. AMD has closed down or sold off profitable product lines and divisions, they've even sold their headquarters, just to keep the blood flowing at it's now all time record rate. Jerry will tell you that it's all evil Intel's fault and sadly you will agree. Re: "<competing against you with your own designs!> Own designs? Do you call a DEC superpipeline with Intergraph cache conducted under a Russian scientist supervision as an "own design"? It is funny. " Ali...Ali... Keep in mind the subject we were talking about. Are you saying the x86 designs of the early 80s were "superpipelined with Intergraph cache conducted under a Russian scientist supervision"???? EP