My point was really directed to bleeding-edge process is "free" "comment and I too have no desire to rehash AMD's harassment of Intel. But R&D is a requirement to all technology companies and is therefore irrelative and Fab construction cost are integral to the gross margin determination and Intel gross margins have consistently been above 60%.
"What I just wrote is not controversial" I would not have responded to you if I thought it was not controversial. As far as I am concerned everything you say is controversial. Other than that I like you!
AMD had great products, but as a company they were extremely vulnerable
Really? Then why did Executive Vice President Henri Richard, the company's then-highest-ranking sales executive say this?
"If you look at it with an objective set of eyes, you would never buy AMD. I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system, if I wasn't working here."
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