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To: xun who wrote (33)	7/20/2010 12:04:59 PM
From: xun	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95

The AMD battle line is 7.35. The resistent zone is 7.35 ~ 7.68. If S&P does not take it above the zone in short term, we may have to wait until the summer ends. With the latest FEC settlement, in my book INTC is officially a value play. NVDA will be the odd man out over a longer term horizon. INTC has the advantages of process and CPU core. AMD has the advantages of CPU/GPU integration. NVDA hardly has anything that can stand out of the pack in the long run. One could argue that NVDA owns the pro GPU market. But that one will be at least a two-horse race when SI/NI becomes mainstream. So, still long on AMD and value-hunting on INTC but watching NVDA. What a drama.

To: xun who wrote (33)	9/7/2010 11:58:27 AM
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Reviewed the product roadmaps of AMD/INTC/NVDA over the weekend. The basic assumptions of the respective product offertings remain intact. INCT continues to enjoy very high margins on PC CPUs. This situation will extend to the SB time. AMD continues to propagate its Fusion prospects and continues to execute well in its GPU business. Taken together, AMD should be able to maintain profitability for the forseeable future. That would be the first time in AMD history if it gets there. Given its GPU competitiveness and its Fusion potentials, my bet is that AMD will get there. If so, the next big question is how profitable is AMD going to be in a broader business sense. God knows. But my bet is still here. NVDA is between a rock and a hard place. It has to get broader traction in its Tegra business. Or it has to have its own CPU business. Otherwise, it is going to be a niche GPGPU player in a longer term. ARMH certainly is the wildcard to this business of X86/GPU computing. But I still think ARMH is and will be a choice of embedded applications, but hard to crack the X86 business. The biggest threat to X86 business is itself, i.e., the X86 processors have gotten so powerful that there are less urgencies to upgrade. This is an interesting time in the general computing world. We shall see the drama unfolding in the next 12~18 months.