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

To: DRBES who wrote (59040)	5/20/1999 7:46:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1583662

DRBES - < I presume that what you do mean is that iNTEL favors pre-announcing "not ready for prime time" complete processors to help keep their customer base captive to future releases that may not come as hoped for.> No, that's not what I meant. It wouldn't work anyway. Intel has to continue to innovate and develop top notch process technology. Leading edge manufacturing and process technology has been a boon to Intel, not to "keep customers captive" [a pretty immature and simplistic response BTW], but in allowing them to run an efficient and cost effective manufacturing operation that delivers technological solutions to its customers at price points that are attractive. IBM and MOT do significant foundry business. They probably feel the need to do these style announcements as a part of doing business. Nothing wrong with them, IMHO. Nothing wrong with Intel's approach either, IMHO. PB