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To: Paul Engel who wrote (97186)	3/6/2000 11:47:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572586

Panicking Paul - Re: Did you know Intel has PROFITS exceeding $2,000,000,000 per quarter ? It's had, they had profits exceeding $2B per quarter for several quarters. They did a great job. It must be great to be living in the past. You're a big Tull fan, I'm sure. But the question for all of us now is: what will happen this year? (that's the future, as in, it hasn't happened yet). I think that Intel will have a fine Q1 - but I'm not so sure that things will go nearly as well in Q2, Q3, and Q4. Dresden is coming - and, lately, Intel has barely been keeping up with Austin. Putting off copper to '01 was a cheap and easy solution. "Let the other guys work out the bugs." Depending on outside technology from Rambus to get pin counts down and data rates up was a cheap and easy solution. Only designing a single, limited feature version of the 810 was a cheap and easy solution. Putting L2 cache on the coppermine early was a tough on, and it paid off. But leaving the L1 at 32K was another cheap and easy solution. Sometimes you're better off when you tackle more of the hard ones. Dan