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To: AK2004 who wrote (18633)	11/10/2000 4:34:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

without strong support from ibm and compaq, who were willing to overlook his personal flaws for the sake of creating competition, I do not believe amd would still be in cpu business. Albert, I question how much of the sales contract negotiations that go on between companies is relegated to the CEOs...I suspect very little, if the semi industry is similar to others. And I have heard that semi contract negotiations can be cutthroat city. In fact, I understand that Intel is nearly lethal when it comes to these kinds of negotiations. Where I would think Sanders personality flaws would do the most damage would be internally. Yet, I have heard that there is a great deal of loyalty for the guy among AMD employees. However I don't know for sure if that is true. Whenever I have heard him speak, he speaks clearly and cleanly with great authority. The people who find him most annoying are the analysts 'cause he doesn't brook for their sh*t...but then again very few of the stronger CEOs.....Chambers, Barrett, McNealy...do either. I think Sanders bad rep came when AMD was floundering and doing poorly in the marketplace, and as is typical human nature, Sanders was the fall guy (as he should be as the CEO) and everything he did or said was made wrong. Now that things are better, the bad rep is brought up less often. In any case, AMD's current woes have nothing to do with his personality flaws, and everything to do with the marketplace and AMD's competition with Intel. ted