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To: SilentZ who wrote (87551)	8/23/2002 9:52:02 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 275872

Dear Zof: There are things that happen if you set up a supposed "independent" organization and use it to further your ends only. Look at the big fine against AT&T for doing this. Given that that was for an independent organization that spent only $267,000. BAPCO must be far over the $27 million mark. Getting hit with a fine more than 100 times as large as AT&T would make Intel go red in more ways than one. Not to mention losing almost all the "goodwill". Another $4.5 billion hit to the bottom line. Perhaps Intel will go below $5 a share, below book like AMD. The biggest hit would be that the HP benchmark of x86 computers will need to be completely open and be measured by measuring the actual system (the wheel version of HP) instead of the current high end optimized version (the crankshaft HP version of a racer). That would stop the bench a P4-2.53 with dual PC1066 when you sell a P4-2.53 on PC133 2T-3-3-3. The customer could run the bench on the system they are getting and can ask "Why my box shows 100 performance points less than the 900 advertised?" Pete