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

To: Elmer who wrote (72174)	9/18/1999 2:21:00 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572806

Re. <Nonsense. AMD wins or loses on manufacturability and cost. Architecture and performance are secondary to cost and availability.> I mostly agree. I think I can claim timely execution implies availability. But, I'm not sure AMD needs to match cost at the high end desktop market. There is a huge margin on these chips. "IF" AMD can maintain a performance advantage, they should be able to sell enough high end K7s to return to profitability. That's a win for them. Now, if Intel is willing to cut prices so steeply that even at the high end, AMD can't be profitable because of their higher cost structure,then I suppose cost will matter also. I DON'T think Intel is prepared to do that. THE WATSONYOUTH