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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (261816)	10/12/2009 5:38:52 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"You're the only one who seems to be struggling with this." I am not struggling with it. Just your <gggg> friend who seems to be under the impression that only AMD has these sort of problems. As you note, no company bats 1.000. It really cannot with the design cycles being what they are. The P4 had the misfortune of hitting the market after high power consumption was falling out of fashion and the industry had hit a frequency wall that made the many-GHz environment it was designed to live in, impractical. Barcelona was pushed out of the nest too soon. AMD gambled and lost on that one. The K9 that he disparaged so much was not the Barcelona like he pretended, but the dual core K8. Which was a huge win for AMD.

To: Elmer Phud who wrote (261816)	10/12/2009 9:59:08 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: That has never been determined in any venue where Intel can present a defense. I know it kills you guys but it's easy for a politically appointed bureaucratic committee to find someone guilty when they can withhold evidence and deny Intel the right to a defense. For goodness sakes, you presented something that went well beyod simple weight of evidence yourself. When Intel had hugely inferior products and higher costs than AMD, it still managed to extort huge profits from its victim-customers. Just like Tony Soprano's garbage hauling outfit, despite higher costs and much worse service, kept making big profits from its customers. Nothing quite like "an offer you can't refuse..."