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

To: tejek who wrote (98022)	3/11/2000 2:47:00 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1571031

Tejek Re.<<<<<<<No embarrassment for AMD...only for MSFT. AMD did nothing wrong. I bet that Intel came in at the last minute with a low ball offer and AMD was unwilling to match it. ted >>>>>>> Ted I often do bidding on my job and I must say that it is at times very difficult to walk away from some jobs; but many times that is the best thing you can do. Amd probably gave MSFT a bottom dollar price and when Intel low balled AMD; amd either had to go lower or walk away. But having the ability to walk away sometimes is more profitable than staying to save face. Or just maybe the economics worked in Intels favor this time. It might have been a good deal for both AMD and Intel. Time will tell, but this does show an increasing strength by AMD in that AMD feels they can get more profitable work elsewhere. A yr. ago it might have been impossible for AMD to walk away. As for Elmers contention that AMD wanted the x-box badly; of course but AMD didn't need it bad enough to lose money trying to get it. At AMD's numbers; the business would have been good and made money. At Intel's bid price, AMD felt they could make more money elsewhere. The real question is will Intel make enough money or was Intel just groveling at Bill's feet trying to save face.