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To: combjelly who wrote (22676)	12/17/2000 11:44:49 AM
From: semiconeng	Respond to of 275872

Very, very true. But Grove did not view it that way, else Intel wouldn't have gotten the FTC on their case by making the supply of 80386's contingent on the purchase of 80286's. This is the one aspect of Intel's management that I never understood, why worry about those guys that are beating their brains out on the low end? If Intel hadn't tried to squeeze Cyrix, AMD, Winchip, et al. out of business, Jerry would have never been able to get the K7 design on the fast track. Atiq could have made the argument that it was risky and they had an assured market on the low end. JS would have gotten into a pissing battle with the board and probably would have been retired by now. But it did not work out that way... The pissing contest between Andy and Jerry has been well documented, and raising the eyebrows of the FTC was certainly an negative unforseen event, but I seriously doubt that AMD's board would have gotten rid of Jerry simply because they disagreed with him. If they had any desire to do that, they would have thrown him out all those years that AMD was losing money hand over fist. They didn't. Let's face it, JS has AMD's board by their nuts, and they would kiss his butt no matter what. And as Far as listening to Atiq Raza, if the board was in the least bit interested in what he had to say, over Jerry, Atiq would still be there, and Dresden would now belong to someone else. That shows me what AMD's board thought of him. Semi