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

To: Tiley who wrote (28290)	2/3/1998 10:13:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

Let me set up a lemonade stand, and ask a million a glass. Perhaps on the edge of a desert.... In a way the classic prices of computers 5 years ago would have stood a price of $1000 for the top end processor.(10-15% of system cost) With that price the Alpha(DEC) would have done a lot better, and perhaps the strategy was partly aimed at the Aplha. With aversion of NT is had a chance at one point. However DEC was ever as bad at marketing as Apple and blew it. So Intels strategy was multi pronged, and served to keep a slew of wannabees out of the market. I am fully aware of Apple and have been damning the APple marketing so long they hate? me on the Apple thread. I think they went too far with AMD for their own good. CPQ wants AMD to survive, and that is why the committed to K6. Intel was pissed, but CPQ has played with AMD before to get Intel pissed, to force them off their strategy. I suspect thae real reason for the latest drop was the CPQ deal, and they wanted a fast kill. I wonder why AMD does not ask another foundry to custome make the K6 to get the volume up?. Is another foundry capable?, do they have space at a reasonable price? Bill