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

To: niceguy767 who wrote (85677)	1/6/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1572197

A rather gutsy article. <G> zdnet.com. "The shortage of chips and processors cost the company up to $250 million, said Gateway Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer John Todd." A good deal for Intel...they paid $20M for a $250M" <G>

To: niceguy767 who wrote (85677)	1/6/2000 10:00:00 PM
From: GlobalMarine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572197

Hi Niceguy: What's really interesting for investors is that AMD's blossoming wasn't top-secret by any means. Anyone could see the trend by going to their local computer store or even scanning the computer store ads in the local paper. I not only saw the trend but I bought it too, having put together several AMD systems myself starting with the K62 & progressing to the Athlon. I just wonder whether Jerry's prediction on CNBC that eventually the government will recognize Intel for its monopolistic practices (e.g. bullying and threatening MB manufacturers - and the ones that do produce Athlon boards supply them in hush-hush plain boxes and are loathe to even feature them at their web sites) will come true. My Gigabyte MB came in a plain, white box, with nameless instruction booklet and nameless CDROM. In the meantime, with IBM and Compaq leading the way, others will follow, as low CPU prices are good for the computer industry (just look at the explosion in box volume since AMD started slugging it out), and it's in the long term best interest of the PC industry to support the company which represents the only reason for low CPU prices.