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To: Scumbria who wrote (40969)	4/26/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

It is not just the parts.....if you and I have the same number of identical hamburgers starting out and you want to sell yours for $2.00 and I sell mine for $1.50, you either have to differentiate your burger some way to justify the extra cost, match my price or lose market share. Your unsold "burgers" will become obsolete over time and can't be sold at any kind of reasonable price. What do you do? If we enter into a price war and we both sell all the burgers we can at the lower price...the question is who runs out of money first. The answer is simple in the Intel/AMD burger war. Then, the price of new, improved burgers goes to $3.50. Happens all the time.

To: Scumbria who wrote (40969)	4/26/2000 7:09:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Intel's ability to do this has been based on their having higher MHz parts than AMD. Nope, it's not a technology issue. It's a business acumen issue and a resource issue. And Intel has demonstrated that they have more of both. We've probably beat this to death. If you want to respond once more, I promise not to reply <g>. Then we'll see how the Summer goes (and I promise to only post relevant information about price declines throughout the Summer without making any more judgments about AMD). Dave