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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (58778)	5/19/1999 3:21:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572172

<It's another thing to talk about whether or not the Celeron is profitable for Intel. If you're talking about the latter, you better figure in the Celeron's share of G&A, S&M, and R&D. You also have to figure in fixed asset depreciation.> Maybe this is a topic for college economics courses. We have to figure in the expenses of yesteryear that led to the P6 core and all of its proliferations, including Celeron. We have to figure in the huge fixed costs and how depreciation should be counted. We have to remember that what Celeron lacks in margins, it makes up for in high volumes (higher than even AMD's entire line of CPUs), which also helps to reduce each CPU's share of R&D and fixed expenses. That's why it's futile to argue over such a topic in this way, because it basically boils down to the core of one's beliefs in how a capitalism should work, when a "monopoly" is truly a "monopoly" (and not just a label exploited for political purposes), and what regulatory role the government should play, if any. Tenchusatsu