Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Fortunately for AMD they don't need to jump above the head anymore. The manufacturing process they have now plus exceptional Opteron design, which is already on sale, is perfectly enough to show a very decent profit in 2004.


Sure, all that is fine, if apparently what you're looking at is short term, 2004. What happens after that? An interesting question, that a Long Term Investor, looking at the bigger picture, might ask themself is...... What's going to happen after that, if AMD, Oooopppssss, sorry, I meant IBM, can't develop a Fully Depleated SOI Process in a Timely, Cost Effective manner? Or if AMD can't develop a True 64 bit Chip? The X86 Cross License with intel doesn't include IA-64 baby, and IMO, X86-64 or for that matter INTC64 (if it exists), is going to run out of steam, sooner, rather than later, assuming of course that Opteron doesn't cook itself first, trying to ramp the speeds on that Partially Depleated SOI Process. But hey, I guess from your point of view, you're correct, things look pretty good for AMD......... For 2004.

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