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

To: tejek who wrote (81420)	11/29/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574326

Ted, <So then, ten, you are admitting that intc does not always make smart decisions?> Nah, I'd never admit that. ;-) The point is that I'd hardly call any of these moves "smart decisions." Intel had NO CHOICE but to release a 600 MHz Katmai in light of the Coppermine delay. Intel has NO CHOICE but to push the P6 core against the Athlon, because Willamette isn't here yet. AMD has NO CHOICE but to reduce the L2 cache speed on the new Athlons, because Thunderwheels isn't here yet. In all three cases, there was no decision to be made. It's only when there are two viable alternatives that a real decision can be made, such as AMD's choice to go with copper interconnect, or Intel's choice not to go with it. Or Intel's choice to go with IA-64, instead of 64-bit extensions to x86. Or AMD's choices to sell off divisions in order to continue funding their quest against Intel (with potential big payoffs). Tenchusatsu