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To: hmaly who wrote (89385)	1/25/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580249

hmaly, Have you ever bothered to look up the definition of a price war. According to my New World dictionary "price war a situation in which competitors selling a certain commodity successfully lowers prices, as to force one or more competitors out of business." Do you really feel that Intel or any other competitor will be forced out of business because AMD lowered prices on their high mhz business? Get real. What makes you think your New World dictionary is the be all and end all. I remember gas price wars among Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, etc., when none of them really expected any of the others to go out of business, but they were still called that. The term price war has been used WRT predatory, if you will, pricing between AMD and Intel many times before, regardless of which company started it. Do you have a need to tag the evil empire twin (Intel) only with the term? One other thing, in the most general sense of the word war, Albania could try to start one with the US, without much chance of "putting us out of business." Tony

To: hmaly who wrote (89385)	1/25/2000 2:10:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580249

Re: "Have you ever bothered to look up the definition of a price war. According to my New World dictionary "price war a situation in which competitors selling a certain commodity successfully lowers prices, as to force one or more competitors out of business." Yes, that's what my dictionary says too, but I think the definition is incomplete. One cannot wage a price war from above, meaning that Intel's prices have always been above AMD's prices. Isn't it implied in the definition that a company must lower it's prices below the competitor's price? If there were no implied conditions in that definition, then AMD could be accused of trying to drive itself out of business by lowering it's own prices below cost, which it did for several years. The definition does not say you have to be driving the OTHER company out of business. Clearly this is NOT what was intended in the definition, but it is not excluded by it either unless you accept some implied conditions. Nor did it intend to imply a price war waged from a higher price point, as you are accusing Intel of. EP