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To: Scumbria who wrote (101551)	3/25/2000 3:12:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

S, >AMD is opening up a lead in every segment of the desktop processor market, and nobody over here seems to be aware of what is happening. That's BS and you know it. As someone pointed out earlier, Intel is pounding money into the bank at the sweet spot frequencies, where the vast majority of sales are made. At the top end, Cumines are beating Alons in the bmarks, clock for clock, and volumes are ramping. Even if these were not the case, you were the first to say AMD is dead (again) when Willamette arrives. Oh, and how about the fact that AMD has zero presence in the exploding server market, where the margins are obscene? Go with that a bit more, why hasn't AMD tried harder to get into that market? It's because no-one trusts AMD for anything that's mission critical. How many lives does AMD have? TV

To: Scumbria who wrote (101551)	3/25/2000 4:52:00 PM
From: f.simons	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

>>I am just trying to point out the huge disconnect between the Intel faithful and reality. AMD is opening up a lead in every segment of the desktop processor market, and nobody over here seems to be aware of what is happening.<< Scumbria Fine. But just how does your repeated "AMD is finished" and "Willamette will knock off Athlon" crap help educate us poor, ignorant folks over here? It is not even clever. Frank

To: Scumbria who wrote (101551)	3/25/2000 9:42:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

SCUMbria - Re:"AMD is opening up a lead in every segment " Executive OVER-COMPENSATION is another segment where AMD leads Intel !!! "the recent AMD proxy notes that Sanders was awarded $2,000,000 "for his leadership and strategic direction after assuming the role of chief operating officer in July, successfully leading the company to fourth-quarter profitability and successfully leading the project to finance and build Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany." That bonus was in addition to Sanders' $1 million salary, plus $115,298 in the form of company-provided vehicles and $79,754 in "physical security services," along with stock options and other compensation, according to the proxy. Hector Ruiz has been promised at least $1.5 million by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in the event he is not elected to replace W.J. Sanders III as chief executive officer of the company by 2002. {=================================} Ruiz gets $1.5M assurance from AMD By Robert Ristelhueber, EE Times Mar 24, 2000 (8:09 AM) URL: eetimes.com SUNNYVALE, Calif. ? Hector Ruiz has been promised at least $1.5 million by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in the event he is not elected to replace W.J. Sanders III as chief executive officer of the company by 2002, according to company documents. Expectations are strong that Ruiz, a longtime Motorola Inc. executive who was named president and chief operating officer of AMD in January, will eventually take the top post at AMD, but his role as heir apparent became clearer when AMD filed its annual proxy statement on March 21. "In the event that Dr. Ruiz resigns before 2002 because the board of directors has determined that he will not become chief executive officer of AMD following our 2002 annual meeting, he will receive a lump sum severance payment equal to two years of his current annual base salary and we will accelerate the vesting of his initial option by two years," the proxy stated. Ruiz currently has an annual salary of $750,000, and will be eligible for base compensation increases starting next year. He was also granted an option to purchase a million shares of company stock, with annual grants of 250,000 shares in following years. Atiq Raza, who had been named president and chief operating officer of AMD in April 1999, was once considered the likely successor to 63-year old Sanders. But Raza resigned and left AMD just three months later for reasons that have never been made clear. Ironically, the recent AMD proxy notes that Sanders was awarded $2,000,000 "for his leadership and strategic direction after assuming the role of chief operating officer in July, successfully leading the company to fourth-quarter profitability and successfully leading the project to finance and build Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany." That bonus was in addition to Sanders' $1 million salary, plus $115,298 in the form of company-provided vehicles and $79,754 in "physical security services," along with stock options and other compensation, according to the proxy. A shareholder's proposal will be made during the April 27 stockholders meeting to amend the company's current bylaws and require the chairman's post to be held by an outside director, a step that would require Sanders' resignation from that position. The AMD board has recommended that the proposal be rejected. A similar proposal was made two years ago by the same shareholder, who was not identified by the proxy. The company's shareholders rejected that earlier proposal.