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A lot of Intel's moves are money oriented. They have stiff competition from AMD
who by the way Intel almost pushed out of the cpu market years ago AMD was really struggling to hang in there. I'll bet Intel's stock holders make heavy demands. New definitly does not mean better. AMD has hung with the big guy on the block by means of innovation and quality. Where as Intel knew it could respond to AMD's attacks through name recognition. But now it seems that AMD has that same recognition and also becoming well known for a quality product.
Thus Intel has responded with the Pentium 4. I think where it will go from here given the fact that AMD and Intel seem to now be on equal footing, will now be
well improved products from both companies. If Intel stumbles now they will move into second place behind AMD for the first time and I do believe this will happen. AMD has won its place through vigorous R+D. Some people differ with this opinion but I still believe that us the consumer have benefited from thier stiff competition.
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