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

To: Elmer who wrote (52243)	3/10/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1577033

RE:"Might not the shareholders have been better served by pouring those resources into the other product lines? Who was being served by taking on Intel? Might that decision have been overly influenced by personal reasons? These are the same people who are deciding AMD's future today. Do you trust them to act on behalf of the shareholders?"... The way I look at it is, if one doesn't like the way the company is run, they can sell their stock. Stocks like Intel lead shareholders to believe that a company always acts in favor of the shareholder. This is the exception rather than the rule. The stock exchange landscape is littered with companies that didn't give a darn about the shareholders. Even AMD is not as bad as some. As far as non-cpu divisions. Well, some of them aren't doing as well as the cpu division. So what do you do, pour more money back into them? I don't think that will happen. I wouldn't be surprised to see them trimmed as well. Jim