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To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (47724)	1/28/1999 8:09:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583406

Jean, Let's face it.. When it comes to execution, this company is the keystones cops.... It's doomed... again My interpretation is that AMD is executing extremely well, and Intel is deeply concerned. Intel has been flying pretty high. Don't look down ..... Scumbria

To: Jean M. Gauthier who wrote (47724)	1/29/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

>>INTEL crushes them under a $ 3B R&D program<< Intel's R&D is a puny 10% of sales, compared to 20% for AMD. When the percentage of employees working in R&D is that small, it leads to an isolationist group dynamic. They come up with useless things like the no-cache Celeron, the no-need-for-a-slot Slot 1 CeleronA, the useless chip ID and they fail to properly test their designs (FDIV bug, "flag" erratum, HALT bug, delayed Xeon 4-way, etc.). AMD also benefits from Motorola's R&D, and, I'm sure for future server systems, IBM and CPQ. Petz