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To: Scumbria who wrote (48650)	2/5/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572510

Slick - Re: "The FTC trial begins next week." You can't even get this detail correct !@ The trial doesn't begin until March 9 ! Re: "Congress wrote laws to protect smaller competitors from this kind of behavior. " Did Congress write a law that says if a competitor undercuts your prices by 25% that it is ILLEGAL for you to reduce your prices to meet the competition ? Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (48650)	2/5/1999 2:26:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572510

Scumbria, re: Intel would not last very long living off Celeron. If that was true, then AMD must be selling below costs and be illegally dumping chips to gain market share. Of course this would explain why they aren't planning a profit this quarter. Please answer the question: Is AMD dumping at below costs?

To: Scumbria who wrote (48650)	2/5/1999 2:27:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572510

Slick - Re: " Intel is using their Xeon profits to try and drive AMD out of business. Do you dispute this statement? " I would put it this way - Intel is using all their resources to legally grow their business . If by growing their business, Intel takes market share from AMD, then so be it. Why weren't you writing your congressman and Senator when it was disclosed that AMD was taking market share from Intel? Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (48650)	2/5/1999 2:35:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572510

<Intel is using their Xeon profits to try and drive AMD out of business. Do you dispute this statement?> Yes, we dispute this statement big time. You might not realize this, considering that your eyeballs are focused on Xeon's huge price tag, but the Xeon is still a very low volume product. I'd be surprised if more than one or two million Xeon units were shipped last quarter. Sure, the margin is enormous, but the cost of producing a Xeon is still huge. Remember that some of the profits from Xeon also go towards the server motherboard and chipset costs as well, since I don't think Intel has much of a margin selling chipsets. Or do you think that us chipset guys get paid solely from chipset revenues? And of course, some of Xeon's profits also has to go into software and OS support, guidance for those who build Xeon servers for a living, development towards increasing RAS for servers (™Tony Viola), full platform validation, etc. Do you think Intel can fund all of this from Xeon sales alone if Xeon were sold at Celeron-like margins? Tenchusatsu