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

To: greg nus who wrote (27016)	12/20/1997 1:43:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1579897

greg, Their forays into full machines made their sales jump, but the low margin on boxes, power supplies etc dragged them down. I hear they lost a bundle on memory contarcts as well. I think they still do it, but not to the same extent. Making the motherboards has also been allowed to moderate. One way to do it is to spin off the motherboard and box Companies as self sufficient companies that are buyers of CPUs , that way they can sell them CPUs at very high prices and have a + impact on the bottom line, and the subs can exist and make small earnings, and who cares as long as they do not impact the head Corporation?. I am not sure how that would get reported?, if they gave shares to all curreny Intel SH in the exact same proportion they could make it a free Co. How would they stop it from buying AMD K7?? Intesting article in latest byte.com about the assordid cpus and their multi forked pathway. I wonder if they will reserve a place in the museum of moribund technology, right next to the "Microchannel" for the Intel slot 1? From what I can see there will be enough parallel routes to the same end point that it might not do that well at all, esp if Intel keeps the price up. Bill