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

To: kash johal who wrote (50286)	2/21/1999 2:34:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580486

Kash - Re: "AST executives believed their company could continue to trade on its experience and expertise in building reliable PCs, rather than accepting Intel's all-in-one technology package. They continued to purchase some processors from Intel -- but also cut a deal to use some Advanced Micro Devices processors in their own PC design. The strategy was a bust. With clone makers offering eye-catching Intel technology at lower costs, AST had neither the performance advantage nor the broad product line to distinguish itself. It steadily lost market share, money, and ultimately its independence," AMD's Bad Luck is CONTAGIOUS ! Paul