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

To: Elmer who wrote (97813)	3/10/2000 11:28:00 AM
From: SteveC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575535

EP, I don't know, nor care, about what AMD was and wasn't doing 20 years ago. AMD is not a second rate company because of a lack of competitive desire. The product cycle for PC microprocessors in the 1990's has been limited to one chip at a time. The reason AMD has been a second rate company in the 1990's compared to Intel is that its K5 came out so much later than the Pentium and the K6 yields were crap. So Intel, which was stronger than AMD when the decade began, became dominant, extended its lead and eliminated all competitors except AMD. Your argument reminds me of when everyone thought Apple was dead 3 years ago. The PC market is huge and with the Athlon the competition between Intel and AMD is entirely different than what occurred in the 1990's. Yes, I'm disappointed with the loss of the x-box contract, but I have no doubt AMD will be profitable for each quarter in 2000.