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To: Yousef who wrote (49231)	2/10/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1583526

Yousef, I have seen that parallel made before, however if you chart them side by side what major blunders were actively made by Jerry to cause AMD to fall? Intel may have done better and invented better and would have beaten AMD anyway. AMD also lost to Intel dirty tricks and monopolistic practices. Parts shortages helped/hurt both from time to time. I am not so sure that AMD is the failure you and Paul like to betray, after all this fight has cost intel hugely. Compare the area under the curve with two scenarios. One with no AMD....Intel an extra 5% share and ASP twice as high., and the other what we have now. tell me another $200 per chip for the past 5 years would have been small potatoes!! In effect Intel has foregone tremendous profits in order to defeat AMD and has not won yet. True they are miles ahead but their prices are in the mud on most volume products and AMD is still gaining share and has co-opted many market majors who now see the value of the bones thrown to AMD by Compaq and others. So for all it's lead Intel must see a threat that it is desperate to destroy?, is this the alpha style K7?, there must be some hidden reason.. Bill