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- From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
- Subject: Re: AMD - what's your opinion?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.185547.26106@adobe.com>
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- References: <1992Dec21.184619.18145@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <69i6VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:55:47 GMT
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- In article <69i6VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- >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.
-
- Have you seen the kind of money Intel is investing in fabs? Intel has
- so much money to burn they are paying a dividend! Have you ever seen a
- chip company pay dividends?
-
- If Intel charges a high price for it's products, it isn't because they
- have to. Intel can afford to buy the best fabs in the world and thus
- use the smallest processes, which means their die can be smaller and
- their cost per die lower. They can lower the price they charge with the
- stroke of a pen.
-
- Can AMD really expect to have any kind of technical advantage over Intel?
-
- >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.
-
- Is this consistent with the company's track record?
-
- --
- My opinions are my own.
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