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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (75351)10/13/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1572953
 
<Segmentation Strategy IS AMD's best friend>

<Segmentation Strategy almost killed AMD when K6x were AMD's only product portfolio; with Athlon coming along, long live the Segmentation pricing. >

I am in complete agreement with you here. Segmentation strategy is largely credited to Paul S. and I doubt if AMD could have pulled it off something similar. As I have shared with this thread on other occasions, it was a stroke of marketing genius. Not exactly customer centric but such is life...