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To: Scumbria who wrote (58812)	5/19/1999 6:14:00 PM
From: PIERRE HANDL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1595473

Dow Jones Newswires. Article did not say that AMD would buy it only that they would be a consideration. But from my analysis it makes a lot of sense. Companies are buying others just to get to the labor pool. Remember there is a tight labor market especially in the high tech sector. Also building fab shops take lots of money and time to pass through local community approval process. Re-configuration of an existing facility would be both cost and time efficient to meet increase chip demand. Having the labor pool would save tons of money to search and train new help. It would be a win-win situation for NSM and AMD. AMD would be buying on the cheap 5% of the market and NSM will have the opportunity to recover their costs and help their employees. The market that buys CYRIX would buy AMD if Cyrix is gone.