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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (101151)	3/31/2000 1:25:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573958

Jozef, not much chance of an early depreciation charge in Q1, even if its a blowout. (is there any question?) IRS pretty much tells you the fastest you're allowed to depreciate anything, you can't speed it up any more than that. Writeoffs of other types are always a possibility. If earnings are really really blowout, maybe they'll prepay some of their debt, especially if they sell parts of the communications division. That would be a good use of excess cash but wouldn't reduce reported earnings by much. Maybe they'll play games like not putting the AMD logo on completed chips and therefore classifying them "work in process" instead of "finished goods." That would lower reported earnings and save something for Q2. But if customers are screaming for Spry Athy's thats not too smart either. Petz