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- From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
- Subject: Re: AMD - what's your opinion?
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:37:28 GMT
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- meyers@lorenz.ocean.fsu.edu (Steve Meyers) writes:
-
- >
- > I'm thinking of buying some AMD. What do people think about the company
- > projected out 1+ year from now? I know they recently lost a lawsuit
- > from Intel, but I hear they'll be able to recover by summer.
-
- My understanding of AMD's legal woes is that they were prevented
- from using Intel's microcode in their (AMD's) next generation of
- Intel-clone microprocessors. More specifically, their next generation
- is to be a 486-clone so that product has been pushed out until next
- spring/summer.
-
- The good news? I think that spring/summer introduction of a a 486
- clone product is still in lots of time to claim considerable
- market share (assuming its price/performance is more than respectable
- in comparison to Intel) from Intel, like its 386 chips already have.
- They are also in position, accoring to a recent Business Week article,
- to ship two more generations of Intel clone chips in rapid succession,
- perhaps even leap-frogging Intel which presents some interesting
- possibilities.
-
- The badnews? As Intel found when shippig their 486-50, current chip
- designs are really pushing the edge of current chip design techniques
- and are requiring some kludges (like heat sinks etc.) to run
- reasonably. AMD is likely to have both more and less problems than
- Intel as they try and explore thesame territory but without Intel's
- experience and with their hands tied somewhat in having another
- manufacturer's design to build to.
-
- After all this blather what do I think? I think they're a good twelve
- month buy. I think the market is going to be all over this stock like
- a dirty shirt in the next quarter or so and this may not be a bad time
- to think about AMD.
-
- Paul
-
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