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

To: Elmer who wrote (35722)	8/9/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570548

Elmer, it is truly amusing how a supposedly reasonable person could write such a nonsense in almost every line! <Ali, You haven't answered the question> How can I answer the question if I have no idea about actual accounting? I just reasonably suggested that the accounting must be the same since all we are living under the SEC... <As far as I can tell AMD employees aren't getting much of anything, otherwise you would see the same accounting tricks you are accusing Intel of.> Again how stupid. I am not accusing Intel of anything _illegal_. I just barely point out that closing your own eyes won't make it dark for everyone... Since the rules are there, everyone is reporting in accord to the rules. However, the scale of compensation at Intel and AMD are incommensurably different, so is the corresponding deception of investors. <More confirmation of the rumors running rampant through the Valley that people are jumping ship at AMD at an alarming rate.> First, where is your confirmation? Second you seem to be missing the fact that the K6 design has been largely completed and completely debugged, so people have to be reassigned, eventually. <find a way to fill the holes on the K7 team?> Making up lies again, Elmer? What holes? The K7 design is completed as well, as per communications on the "secret thread". <Communications maybe?> You must be totally ignorant in the field. You must know that the communication area is so-called mixed domain, where very specific analog and digital skills are required. The people from communication are essentially useless for CPU designs or require retraining. <Jerry can keep up his pathological battle against the evil empire.> Stupid assertion again. This is not pathological, it is just a matter of survival, that simple. So you want a company with superior manufacturing technology (0.25um 5-layers, local interconnect, flip-chip economical packaging, FAB with 30M+/year chip capacity), with in-house highly modular design technology, with full in-house knowledge of all the intricacies of x86 undocumented "features", you want them just walk away, give all this presumably lucrative business up? Very stupid idea indeed on your part. <AMD will now attempt to buy what they don't have the resources to develop.> Wrong again, Elmer. Old way of thinking. You do not cook cakes in America yourself, you just buy them! <AMD used to be a top player in this field but not anymore. Why do you suppose that is?> I don't know. Missing inflection point maybe? Just like at Intel with the sub-$1000 PCs... ------------- See, Elmer, you better think more before repeating Plaintiff Engel nonsense.