Intel bobo Pat Gelsinger heeft op een ronde tafel meeting gezegd dat hij VIA (fabrikant van semi-brakke chipsets) als een grotere bedreiging ziet dan AMD (fabrikant van een super snelle x86 CPU's). De verklaring achter deze wazige uitspraak:
He said: "We're concerned about competition. Are we paranoid about competition from Asia? Yes, we are. We're seeing more and more first class silicon from Taiwan. Furthermore, they've got cheap capital. We are paranoid about Taiwan and we expect them to be very competitive, more so than AMD. They're a very potent force and we take them seriously."Gelsinger said that Intel would respond to AMD's introduction of the Athlon K7 in the same way as it had done for the last 20 years.
Intel, he said, would respond with superior branding, superior technology and better execution.
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