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To: fastpathguru who wrote (266920)	4/18/2011 6:15:28 PM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

fpg Perhaps you might explain why AMD's top Sales executive said these things about AMD: He added that AMD is saddled with a reputation that “we’re cheap, less reliable, lower quality consumer type product.” Some of Richard’s other comments are redacted, but he goes on in the document to rail against AMD selling only microprocessor chips themselves, and not a “platform” of those products and accessory chip sets, as Intel does. He described that AMD strategy as “pathetic,” for “exposing a partial story, particularly in the commercial segment, that is clearly inferior to Intel’s, if we want to be honest with ourselves.” blogs.wsj.com So AMD's own executives were admitting internally that, among other things, their lack of a complete platform impacted their competitive position. Apparently he has a better objective view than you do: a person looking at the situation “with an objective set of eyes” would never buy AMD chips. “I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system if I wasn’t working here.” Do you think Dell might have taken a skeptical view of AMD in view of their unreliable lower quality reputation and lack of a complete solution? How do you think they got that reputation? Do you think maybe it was because of lower quality and lower reliability? Do you think Dell was in a position to know? You have a Walmart mentality and to you it's just "parts is parts"...