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

To: Scumbria who wrote (54359)	4/5/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1577228

Re: "AMD is losing money after all their costs (including R&D and capital expenditure) are added in. Without the K6 sales, they would not be able to finance the R&D or fabs." Considering that they spent $500 Million to buy the K6 design and have been a big net loser ever since, they would have been far better off not buying Nexgen in the first place and plowing that money into the divisions that had a chance of producing profits instead of pissing more money away trying to hurt Intel with their illegal dumping of K6s below cost. The K7, should it ever ship, will not only underperform Intel's coppermine (by AMD's own admission) but it will also lose money as well. That's what AMD does. It's their thing and like attracts like. The only remaining question is, who's going to buy the assets when they go under? Not if, but when. EP