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

To: Scumbria who wrote (49664)	2/15/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579857

Re: "AMD makes competitive microprocessors. Intel is a monopoly. " AMD makes competitive products. AMD has major production capability. AMD has virtually all the top tier boxmakers as customers. I think your above statement is somewhat inconsistent and self contridictory. How can Intel be a monopoly if AMD is competitive? Furthermore, even if Intel were a monopoly, which it isn't, so what? That is not illegal. AMD started an outright price war at the lowend, clearly selling below their cost to gain market share. Intel responded by lowering what all you guys keep calling monopolist pricing to a more competitive level, EXACTLY what you guys kept demanding, while still making a reasonable profit on each device shipped. You kept telling us that AMD served the consumer by keeping Intel's prices lower. You got exactly what you asked for and still you whine. The bottom line is you will whine regardless of what Intel does. High prices, low prices, Scumbria whines. EP