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To: economaniack who wrote (219769)	12/8/2006 9:52:42 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

First, I am not one of those who thinks there is much liability for AMD in this (graphics cards) price fixing investigation. We have an example in DRAM. I think there were $300 m in fines levied against Samsung earlier this year. But the DRAM market is much larger than graphics cards. So if there is an adverse finding, and if AMD is found liable (as the new owner of ATI's business), then maybe there will be a $$ fine, but not in the hundreds of millions. Probably tens of millions. However, if there are criminal indictments, (as in the Samsung case), then it will be only against ATI and Nvidia execs. AMD people have nothing to do with that past behaviour.