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To: Francis Chow who wrote (6244)	5/20/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Francis - Re: " I believe they have produced a superior product with considerably less resources than Intel. " AMD spent $650 MILLION DOLLARS to buy NexGEN. They have poured another $400 Million into Fab 25 to make the K6, above and beyond the original budget. All told, they have spent a minimum of a BILLION DOLLARS on the K6 development - probably more than Intel spent on the Pentium II development. I am also neglecting the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the K5 which netted AMD ZILCH. Check AMD's balance sheet carefully - you'll see the enormous resources spent by them trying unsuccessfully to keep up with Intel. Paul