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To: Process Boy who wrote (57719)5/10/1999 5:09:00 AM
From: kapkan4u  Respond to of 1573848
 
< I believe if AMD is foolish enough to massively undercut Intel's prices again, a la the K6x, you may see Intel retaliate with price cuts of its own. Another price war would obviously hurt the bottom line of both companies...>

I think both Intel and AMD have now learned from the past and will not try to murder each other in the future. AMD has learned that the market share growth does not necessarily grow profits or even revenues. Intel has learned that cutting prices on Celerons can hurt PIII revenues. Killing AMD is not in Intel's interest because if they succeed, MOT, TI, or IBM will buy AMD. Each of these companies has more resources and better technology then AMD and will make life more difficult for Intel.



To: Process Boy who wrote (57719)5/10/1999 10:31:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573848
 
PB,

AMD's "manufacturing problem" is that they have been forced to ramp the clock speed of the K6 family too quickly. The K7 is architected to avoid that problem, so don't take too much comfort in the manufacturing folklore spawned by spurned analysts and bloodsucking lawyers.

Scumbria