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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charlie Tuna who wrote (26065)	11/19/1997 12:52:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583869

<TSM and other vertical specialists who only do foundary work Take a look at custom mfg business Solectron etc. they have done this very well and the semi market is moving this way so there is plenty of capacity to churn out the comodity chips just like DRAM my boy just like DRAM. > You mean ASIC houses. These guys are behind on the technology curve, their quality levels are poor, and their costs are higher. They're simply not competative in the CPU business. <Why does the cpu need to be powerful to show dvd movies give me a break> Well everyone will want to watch all the football games in a seperate window. That's non DVD. < Where are the AMD and Cyrix servers? Name 1 please. Strawman who said anything about amd or cyrix you built a bs argument but i aint biting..> No need to bite. I brought it up. It's relevent as far as Intel profits are concerned. < charlie tuna was smart enough not to get eaten elmer charlie > Charlie kept trying to get hooked so he could be eaten, but here the analogy breaks down. Have your own opinion Charlie, you're welcome to it. I hope you're wrong, time will tell. EP