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

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (77814)	10/29/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

Cirrus, Toyota stopped selling the Tercel, their smallest car, a year or two ago. Didn't know that. With Intel, though there is a lot of leveraging to be realized by running the gamut from low end to high end. The obvious one is plants and cap equip that can be used almost universally across all the products. Then there is the fact that OEMs and other customers like to know they can one stop shop for THE key component in PCs, workstations and all kinds of servers. As an Intel stockholder, do I relish the idea of Dell having to go to a different company than Intel for low end chips? Next thing you know, bada bing, bada bang, they're using the other guy's high performance chip too. Well, fatta chancea, but still. Same thing applies to end users. If a lot of them get started with, say, AMD based PCs, they might just stay with them as they move up, for whatever reason. I think a lot of Apple's fervent following comes from all those kids that used Apples in grade schools that were donated to by Apple. Course, there, the OS and look and feel are different, too. Intel doesn't give up low end chips. Tony