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To: Gary Kao who wrote (121855)	12/11/2000 7:16:52 PM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I mailed the following letter to Intel's Barrett today Gary, if you get a response, please share it. thank you, jim

To: Gary Kao who wrote (121855)	12/11/2000 10:20:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, I don't believe your concerns are well placed, as AMD warned tonight and said it will ship 6.8 million chips this Q. That falls short of expectations by 2 Million. Market conditions being as they currently are, I do not think any advertising could stimulate sales. People are simply waiting to see if we will get a President without chaos and if there will be a recession next year. INTC has made some major blunders over the past year no doubt, but even effective advertising cannot obviate poor market conditions. Regards, Brian

To: Gary Kao who wrote (121855)	12/12/2000 5:22:35 PM
From: davidrmm	Respond to of 186894

As an Intel shareholder I certainly agree with you. What a waste of Money! If you cannot get bang for the buck then don't spend the buck. The ads are terrible. They do not even build a good image IMO.

To: Gary Kao who wrote (121855)	12/13/2000 12:03:51 PM
From: traetzloff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, I think you are right about the advertising, but the problem goes deeper. The folks from Intel seem, as an organization, to have no idea how the rest of the world functions. I have a small computer business which supplies computers and network integration to small and medium size businesses in the Puget Sound area. We attend, because we must, Intel meetings on a regular basis. Seldom does the program have anything to do with the market we are in. Everything is geared to a Boeing size operation. I realize that we only sell about 500 chips a year, and a similar number of mboards with Intel chipsets. Dell sells 5 million. But there are 10,000 small dealers like us in the country. Between us we also sell 5 million a year. A number of small dealers that I know about have switched to AMD product, not because they think it is better or because it is cheaper, because they feel brushed off by Intel. It seems that Intel believes they can just put a product on the market and it will sell. No reason to gear the advertising to the sizzle; no reason to prepare the dealers with ammunition to market the product; and no understanding of the needs and wants of the end users. I sell Intel because I believe is the best product for my customers. I get painfully little help from Intel in that effort. Tim R

To: Gary Kao who wrote (121855)	12/13/2000 7:37:39 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, Gary, Gary, <<<. On all these accounts, Intel’s current advertising strategies fail miserably.>>> Do I agree with you, or what? I have been an Intel shareholder for quite some time and I don't know how many PC's with Intel processors I have bought. It is absolutely crazy, this company does so many things well, but it just does not seem they have any common sense. The money they waste on their advertising campaign is criminal. The way they communicate with the investment community, is laughable - only if it wasn't so painful. The way they design hardware/software for the small business and consumer markets - the way they interact with small businesses and individual consumers - must be headed by people that was planted at Intel by Jerry Sanders. When you look at it the way you have just described and then look at what traetzloff has to say, in his terrific post: Message 15012510 This makes you think there is some kind of perverse conspiracy going - and where no one recognize there is something terribly wrong going on. Mary