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To: colin1497 who wrote (237309)	7/26/2007 7:56:52 PM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

The big question, then, is, which stock can do well in this lower margin future? Isn't that obvious? AMD just posted $600M in losses again, while Intel posted $1.3B in profit.

To: colin1497 who wrote (237309)	7/26/2007 10:15:25 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

>> If a willing suitor were to buy AMD, it could be ugly for INTC. Isn't that what the German (oe Saxony) government tried in the past few years. To finance AMD and give then subsidies to help them in the fight against Intel ? How much did they burn so far ? a $billion ? maybe more ? Didn't Morgan Stanley just blow $4.2B of customers' money on the same precept ? It looks to me the German fabs are completely obsolete now, and they did not earn the money to replace their old equipment. I can understand how a government will try again (another subsidy for $360m a week ago). What (aside from a desire to subsidize employment) will motivate a private company to do that ?