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To: Dan3 who wrote (28537)	2/15/2001 8:35:59 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Looks like Hector agrees with Jerry that real men build fabs. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 15 (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. <AMD.N> plans to build a factory in Brazil, Valor Economico business daily reported Thursday. AMD's president Hector Ruiz told Brazil's Development Minister Alcides Tapias During a visit to the Brazilian capital of Brasilia that the company will build the factory with a Brazilian partner, the newspaper said. Tapias said the giant chipmaker was attracted by a law that provides tax breaks for producers of technology products. Brazil passed the law at the beginning of the year in a bid to spur value-added output in Latin America's largest economy. AMD will send a technical team to Brazil to pick a site, but the company already has its eye on the country's wealthier southern region. Intel Corp. <INTC.O>, the world's No. 1 chip maker and AMD's competitor, denied speculation last year that it had immediate plans to build a manufacturing plant in Brazil, but it didn't rule out seeking a local assembly partner.

To: Dan3 who wrote (28537)	2/15/2001 5:01:26 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 275872

<Exactly, look what happened when AMD tried to go against the tide of Intel's all but mandated Rambus memory standard. What was that absurd attempt at an alternative AMD went for, DD something? > I have known RDRAM since 1992/3. I have said that RDRAM in PCs will be a failure in PCs before most. At the same time, one has to be absolutely blind to not realize that RDRAM has shipped more in 1999, 2000 and will ship more in 2001 than DDR DRAM on desktop PCs. That shows the power of a market leader. As long as Intel has lopsided market share of this business, Intel's advantage will remain. <Perfect example.> Of what?