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To: Scumbria who wrote (59321)	5/23/1999 4:14:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572990

<If the retail market is so insignificant, why doesn't Intel forget about it? They are spending billions of dollars in lost profits to regain retail market share.> You know the answer as well as I do. First of all, it's not costing Intel as much as you think. Second, the price that Intel would have to pay had they felt comfortable to cede the retail market to AMD would be much worse. Third, earnings of $2.0 billion last quarter (which is up 57% from Q1 1998) doesn't sound like "billions of dollars in lost profits" to me. And fourth, AMD wants to use its gains in the retail market space as a beachhead in their effort to make headway into other market segments. What, do you think Intel should make it a cakewalk for AMD? Tenchusatsu