Replies to post #19553 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[imho]

Mas,

You can scratch one of your complaining companies from the list as it has gone bust ....owing AMD money !

Yeah. AMD paid them money to sell AMD based computers, and the result was a bancruptcy.

Sheesh, talk about biting the hand that fed you !

You ain't kiddin'

IMHO

[wbmw]

Mas, the article says the following:

Granville's main creditors are its bank, HSBC, and US computer chip maker AMD.

Since AMD is neither a bank nor an investment capitalist, this only means that AMD sold this company a bunch of processors, but they went belly up before they had a chance to pay for them.

Don't worry, though. I will restrain from making a joke about what happens to small computer companies that rely on AMD's low ASP commodity business model (yeah, I know AMD now has Opteron and insanely priced FX parts, but I'm sure Time and Tiny Computers did not sell a lot of these).

[morrowinder]

Mas: Not great news for anyone:/

In US traditional retail there are these companies that compete in desktop: HP, Gateway/Emachines,Medion(very small player), Sony, rarely a whitebox brand but these are very rare now in most accounts. It pushes the balance to people like HP(who holds dominant retail market segement share) and of course dell, through mail order but a significant factor.

US retail is an extrememly mature market and the smaller brands simply can't compete, margins are single digits across the board even for the retailers. Sadly the UK will have fewer choices now but I would expect the pattern of US retail to follow there. Hopefully a local brand will replace that one so that competition remains strong. It was fairly significant there? Don't know my UK pc brands but I remember when Tiny came to the US. It was a collosal failure as a retailer but it was an interesting company:) They were marketing a shuttle like cube years ago...