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To: kash johal who wrote (39910)	10/23/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1574118

Kash-No-Data - AMD Just lost their Vantis Director for Japan and Asia-Pacific. When will this division be closed and written off to avoid further losses? Paul {=============================} ebnews.com Altera names president of Japan unit By Crista Souza Electronic Buyers' News (10/22/98, 06:42:31 PM EDT) PLD supplier Altera Corp. today named Robert Buck Jr. as the first permanent president of its Japan division. Buck was most recently director of Japan and Asia Pacific sales for Vantis, the PLD subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. As head of Altera Japan, Buck will manage sales and support for all Altera products in the region, where Altera is the major PLD supplier. The company said it intends to increase its focus in Japan to capture a share of the large market traditionally served by ASIC makers. Buck will report to Pete Smyth, vice president of worldwide sales for Altera.

To: kash johal who wrote (39910)	10/23/1998 2:56:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574118

<If you are an Intel shareholder you should be very disturbed.....very disturbed- just imagine 400Mhz CPU's with 3dnow for around $240.> As CirrusLvr said, AMD doesn't have the capacity to make a serious dent in Intel's armor. That's because the 400 MHz CPU's are obviously going to start out at pretty low volumes. Meanwhile, Intel continues to crank at the rate of at least 24 million CPU's per quarter. I'll bet Intel's sweet spot is currently split between the 350 MHz and 400 MHz Pentium II, so for AMD to ship "hundreds of thousands" of 400 MHz K6-2's this quarter is nothing compared to the millions of Pentium II's that Intel is pushing. <So if you are an AMD shareholder you can sleep tight.> AMD's success doesn't necessarily mean Intel's downfall. But it's still disturbing to see how AMD is pricing their CPU's much lower than I feel they need to, especially with the upturn in demand this quarter. Tenchusatsu