| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JULY 12, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
Intel Puts On the Squeeze ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES No. 2 microprocessor maker says price competition from Intel will lead to $200 million loss in second quarter. AMD's hopes now lie with a new top-of-the-line chip. NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR Two years after buying Intel rival Cyrix Corp., National exited the PC processor business on May 5, citing price pressures. Nobody has stepped up to buy the unit so far. 3COM Competition from Intel has made network cards--source of 13% of 3Com's sales--obsolete. 3Com has not generated sufficient growth in other units fast enough to compensate for lost revenues. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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