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To: Elmer who wrote (93224)	2/15/2000 10:24:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1571227

Elmer, AMD fixed their prices below Intel's prices and below cost of manufacture. Cyrix was their main competition at the low end and they drove the competition out of business by predatory pricing. I thought that Intel was the main competition at the low end. Big bad AMD loves to sell chips below cost. Poor little innocent Intel was just a victim of the price war last year. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (93224)	2/15/2000 10:59:00 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571227

FUDD, re:"AMD fixed their prices below Intel's prices and below cost of manufacture." Got a LINK to your fantasy? Make it so, Mysef

To: Elmer who wrote (93224)	2/15/2000 1:05:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571227

AMD fixed their prices below Intel's prices and below cost of manufacture. Cyrix was their main competition at the low end and they drove the competition out of business by predatory pricing. Now, like I said, if Intel decides to simply match AMD's prices, you guys will cry "Intel's starting a price war!!! Booo Hooo". EP, Cyrix as in NSM? Drove them out? NSM went running from the cpu business.....and it was much more than a price war that made them run. ted

To: Elmer who wrote (93224)	2/15/2000 4:27:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1571227

EP, re:<AMD fixed their prices below Intel's prices and below cost of manufacture> No, Intel continued to sell the 300A and 333A Celeron parts at $40 long after AMD was competing at that speed grade. They were all over the grey market and clearly Intel was trying to kill Cyrix/NSM. Petz

To: Elmer who wrote (93224)	2/15/2000 7:07:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571227

Re: "Cyrix was their main competition at the low end and they drove the competition out of business by predatory pricing. Now, like I said, if Intel decides to simply match AMD's prices, you guys will cry "Intel's starting a price war!!! Booo Hooo"." If AMD has had to lower their prices because they can't sell all their inventory at current prices, it is NOT a price war, or predatory pricing. That's the normal functioning of a market economy. If AMD was sold out and STILL went ahead and lowered prices, that would be an action characteristic of a price war, and it would be predatory. Get it yet? Kevin