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To: Elmer who wrote (87664)	1/17/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573376

Re: "If AMD were to stop this price war against Intel everybody's ASPs would go up." Q: Why do you think Intel advertises? A: So they can charge more for their processors. Ceteris paribus, companies which don't advertise are forced to charge less in order to compete. That's why AMD's prices are lower than Intel's. If you are correct and the Coppermine is really faster than Athlon (snicker) then there's a performance justification for AMD's lower prices as well. If you are AMD and you are the low volume, higher cost producer, the last thing you want is a price war. It's pretty clear that Intel sets the prices in this market, and AMD takes what it can get. Kevin

To: Elmer who wrote (87664)	1/17/2000 3:56:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573376

Pravin, the world of business is not a world of peaceful co-existance. It never has been and never will be. In fact other business sectors are much more cutthroat than the AMD-Intel relationship. AMD cuts prices below Intel's to gain market share and that's just fine but when Intel responds that's attacking poor AMD. That's a double standard that show's your bias. The world of business will never be the happy place you want it to be where everybody "gets along". Keep feeding yourself this line of bull....that's what generals told themselves while wiping out whole populations....its a load of crap. Certain actions are not justifiable. ted

To: Elmer who wrote (87664)	1/18/2000 1:11:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573376

Elmer, AMD cuts prices below Intel's to gain market share and that's just fine but when Intel responds that's attacking poor AMD. That's a double standard that show's your bias. The world of business will never be the happy place you want it to be where everybody "gets along". I appreciate where you are coming form, and I would agree with you if Intel and AMD were more or less equal in size and in market clout. A tiny underdog does not usually start wars. They do what they have to do to survive. Pravin.