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To: JDN who wrote (104350)	6/12/2000 8:55:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

JDN, I said two years ago, they should ignore AMD and concentrate on making the best (meaning RELIABLE first, FAST second) Microchips in the industry. That view has been in minority for last few years at Intel. The primary objective of the new initiatives has been to corner the market, and do so with half baked ideas such as constantly changing (now proprietary) socket definitions, AGP, MMX, MMX 2, SSE, USB, now RDRAM etc. Only a very few FANATICS really give a damn about a couple hundred or less extra points on the speed chart. These people make probably a billion dollar (positive)difference in Intel's bottom line every quarter. Joe

To: JDN who wrote (104350)	6/12/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

jdn, i concur with your thoughts. intel is not trying to do what is best for the consumer from a value point of view. they are doing what they thought was best for intel - even the dram companies were against it, consum,ers were against it and many pc mfrs were against it due to its excessive complexity, associated costs and minimal overall performance improvement. rmbs is a niche product, at best. now intel is having share ripped from them b/c this rmbs gamble has rolled snake eyes... now intel is finding out this technology REALLY is TOUGH and they are probably regretting their obligation to rmbs to PUSH the technology on a market that DOESN'T want it. sure, some do want it - very few folks in a niche market (graphics, marginal speed at any cost, etc...)