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To: Joe NYC who wrote (77692)	4/18/2002 4:56:44 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The things you listed were achieved on Grove watch." Fatuous nonsense. Barrett led the all-important manufacturing push beginning in the mid-80s. (Though Droids natter about AMD having the "world class yields," the truth for many years has been evident in the profit figures.) Barrett was in charge during the last several years, the period of the 6x increase in stock price, the proliferation of CPU designs, and the efforts to force AMD into bankruptcy. Yes, there were screwups. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. AMD's fiascos with K6 and Thoroughbred, and its absence from several important market segments (acknowledged by Sanders) show that screwups happen a lot. But I'm happy with my Intel stock during the period Barrett led the company, and during the past 25 years in general. AMD investors (er, "speculators") can't really be very happy with their stock performance. As a reminder, spend a couple of minutes looking at this chart: finance.yahoo.com --Tim May