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To: Scumbria who wrote (81120)	5/18/1999 12:54:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Re: So why on earth is Intel slashing prices and profits every week I thought it is more like every two months according to what is reported. The profits is in the up trend too though not the kind of growth some people expected. Gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (81120)	5/18/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - <So why on earth is Intel slashing prices and profits every week, just to regain the tiny low margin market share they lost to AMD?> Because this is business Scumbria. Not a collaborative effort between the two companies, but competition. It is folly for Intel to sit back and let AMD take marketshare, when Intel has competitive products that turn a decent profit in response. Scumbria, AMD's pricing tactics have every bit to do with AMD's predicament, undercutting their competition by 25%. If that's the way AMD wants to play, it would be naive of them to not expect Intel to meet the competition with a response. Charles and kapkan4, this goes to your argument also. All of your arguments that smack of "Why doesn't Intel just leave AMD alone" are crazy. AMD has stated it is in head to head competition with Intel. Intel has the duty and the right to respond. Ceding market share is ludicrous, unless there is not a profitable response. In this case there most certainly is, despite Scumbrialand mythology that states otherwise. Also, regarding the price slashing: part of this is to make way for the P3P. PB

To: Scumbria who wrote (81120)	5/18/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<Scumbria - re: AMD is a miserable little company with one barely functional fab. They have a dismal history of failure and lose money quarter after quarter. Their manufacturing capacity is severely constrained and they have no chipset support for the oversized, underperforming, overpowered (60W) K7. So why on earth is Intel slashing prices and profits every week, just to regain the tiny low margin market share they lost to AMD?> Because they are paranoid. Webster: Paranoia - irrational fear.