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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jcholewa who wrote (65710)	12/14/2001 5:54:58 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

AMD has itself to blame "Most 30 year old companies have more ex-employees than they have employees, and companies that are exceedingly large would logically have a higher numbers of exployees with bad experiences. "It is possible that Intel produces more unhappiness per average employee than other corporations, but this is in the field of opinions." This is all true. Intel has made many of thousands of employees into wealthy people, and many of them have retired after long careers or have gone on to start up other companies. It's interesting that of the dozen or so ex-Intel persons I know of who post to either the Intel or AMD threads (including paradoxically-named "moderated" one), essentially all of them are positive on Intel. Positive on its management (with a few exceptions, depending on the year), positive on its role in high tech over the past 20-30 years, and positive on its future (with a few doubts about a few strategies). Dredging my memory, I only recall one current or former AMD employee, Dale Leroy, who often had good insights about the Athlon. (Don't see him posting much anymore, for whatever reasons.) So, where are all the ex-Intel Intel bashers? Not here. AMD did an undeniably good job with the Athlon...who can dispute that? But there has been little good followthrough. And their history of innovation over their history pales into insignificance compared to Intel's role in processors, EPROMs, RAMs, fab processes, development systems, and many other areas over those same 30 years. The increase in market cap tells the story, with AMD stock selling for what it was selling for 15 years ago. Most of the Intel bashers here seem to be AMD speculators, neither AMD employees (current or former) nor ex-Intel employees. They have taken the "flatline" peformance of AMD, averaged over several years, to be evidence that Intel is oppressing them unfairly. In fact, Intel is indeed trying to drive them out of business...welcome to the world of competition. AMD has itself to blame. --Tim May