Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[fastpathguru]

Heh, you guys just don't like facing the fact that when
Intel flips the switch on EM64T for its desktop chips it
will probably put far more 64 bit chips into the market
place in its first quarter of sales than AMD has in total
since day one.

Let's presume you're right.

The product would still be a ripoff of AMD's.

It would only sell into a market primed by one or more years of AMD's trailblazing.

What then? Intel would then have a ridiculous mix of underperforming and/or feature-lacking chips with no hope of catching up until 05, while AMD's manufacturing strategy of supplying all segments with essentially the same, superior core kicks into high gear, at the beginning of the 90nm process's ramp in volume and performance.

Anheiser-Busch sells tons and tons of Budweiser. That doesn't mean it's good, some people just set the bar real low...

Give me Sam Adams any day.

fpg