Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

chipguy,

Yeah it's clear how much you much resent having your
BS shot down.

You brought up a counter point, that happens to be invalid. That's a far cry from shooting anything down.

Your counter point is that HP is investing $1 billion per year (using fuzzy numbers) - in order to lend credibility to $10B figure

On the other hand, you said that investing only $80m / year, using strict figures.

These 2 figures are not comparable. You can either use strict figures, such as what you did with SGI, and in that scenario HP figure and 10B figure shrink considerable, or you use a fuzzy figure, based on which SGI pledge is much more. It would not at all surprise me if SGI is (or should I say was) #3 on the list of that Itanium alliance.

Why are HP figure fake? Because nobody invests 29% of R&D in part of the business that brings in 1.19% of revenue. HP certainly does not.

Joe