Replies to post #73238 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[CombJelly]

"Here you go again, retreating to conspiracy theories."

Don't have to believe me. Just look at AMD's sales. They had been struggling upwards until Late Q205. Then they took off like a scalded cat. What had changed? Well, they got more design wins and Best Buy and Circuit City started to put them on the shelves and they started to appear in the flyers. In prior quarters, not only were AMD machines scarce in those places, but they would often disappear totally towards the end of the quarters. But that all changed.

Nothing changed at AMD. Still had the same product line, so it wasn't like they introduced anything new. What did change was the lawsuit. It could be totally decoupled, but...

[fastpathguru]

Uh, that AMD got a significant and growing presence in shelf space immediately after the lawsuit was filed, is FACT.

Whether there is a causal relationship between those two events is open to debate.

fpg