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

To: scott who wrote (26076)	11/20/1997 9:54:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584252

Despite losing money or just breaking even...every sale of a DEC alpha, AMD or Cyrix chip means that Intel sold that many less chips. AMD is obviously going for as many PC makers and the subsequent increased market share...rather than immediate profit. The only thing holding them back at this time is yield. Unfortunately, their window of opportunity closes as time marches on and Intel ramps up the speed ratings on the Pentium II. Still, AMD is bring on a lot of top OEMs. This helps the other alternate chip makers as well. It appears to me that certain OEMs want to put the sqeeze on Intel's high prices and are using AMD and Cyrix as their ace in the hole. With AMD "giving away" chips, it seems AMD is "cooperating"... Jim