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To: Dan3 who wrote (76137)	4/1/2002 11:50:43 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, Re: "AMD doesn't play that game - AMD depreciates as fast as they build." Do you have proof of this? If true, that would be a horrible way to run a business. The monetary benefits of depreciating equipment over 5 years are immense. You don't need to be an economics professor to know that. wbmw

To: Dan3 who wrote (76137)	4/2/2002 12:48:16 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, Depreciation is often taken slower than you need to if there are no taxes due, why use it up, save it for later. The fact that Intel will be writing them off in 2005 means they will not have made enough money to want to use that deprecation by then....lower ASP, you bet. As far as I know most businesses want to depraciate equipment asap. It is the law or other compelling need that halts this. Bill

To: Dan3 who wrote (76137)	4/2/2002 12:48:59 AM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re <<AMD doesn't play that game - AMD depreciates as fast as they build. >> That is not true. Accounting laws mandates depreciation over a period time for capital good. No one is allowed to write of an equipment immediately. In Asia that fastest is 3 years, in states it is 5 years. Mani