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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60949)	10/29/2001 5:12:23 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tench Re...I could also argue that Intel's vendetta according to you is any attempt to remain competitive in a tough marketplace.<<<<<<<< I believe I have never used the term vendetta, in conjunction with Intel. Are Intels price wars an attempt to remain competitive. Absolutely. Can Intel do it without regaining their competitive engineering edge. I doubt it. Marketing can only go so far. As an example this end, Intel needed to embrace competitive chipsets, by Via, and Nvidia; so Intels customers could maximize the price/performance ratio with the 2x266 chipsets. The longer AMD keeps the price/performance edge, the more likely it is the ASPs will even out in the future, in spite of Intels advertising. MSFT has shown that it isn't always free market capitalism. The exposes done on THG and ANANDS should dispel that myth, that Intel is following free market capitalism. At any rate, in the last 3 yrs. since Athlon, only Intels price wars have been able to stop AMD's increase on market share. It used to be Intel's engineering and manufacturing prowness. Now Intel is down to marketing and price wars. And if Intel loses their name branding, it will be just price wars.