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

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (30993)	4/4/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1573695

Mary, <don't you think that with over $9B in cash, if they didn't have in-house experience with task switching and real-time response, they could hire some of these people from ...> As you mentioned yourself, there are IFs. If their management AND senior technical staff realize this, they could hire. What if not? <if Intel could thrive in spite of Andy Grove's paranoia,> Intel was capitalizing on backward compatibility with legacy x86 code. This direction is exhausted to sustain THEIR business model and Moore's law. Now they are trying to make a jump into new area. My point is that given a modern state of computing and it's complexity, it is next to impossible to design a viable architecture behind a curtain of secrecy and paranoia. If you think that bug bucks make their brains bigger, I think you are wrong. Big buck only add up to arrogance, which in turn leads to less susceptibility to feedbacks and constructive criticism. <teach Intel how to do things the right way.> I am only adressing the issues that are apparently underrepresented in the available information on Merced. <what could you possibly bring that could hurt them?> I could appreciate you belief in Intel ingenuity. However, some results are well known - iA432, i860. There is really nothing I can do now, you are right. I am just trying to analyze the situation, nothing more. I HOPE they will hurt themselves by their own paranoia and arrogance. Monopoly will die this way or another. This is the law of nature. Regards :) Ali