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Why did Dell give up on the Intel payments by offering AMD chips if those payments made up 75% of their income?

The situation would be analogous to a meth addict who manages to kick the habit right before it kills him, I think.

I've lost a lot of respect for Michael over this news. He was taking the baksheesh from Intel at exactly the same time he was recommending that Apple be wound up and liquidated for lack of a viable business model. That took chutzpah he could have put to better use elsewhere in his own business.

I think he said that in 1997, not 2007. But if he had not done this deal, Steve Jobs would have been able to send his "well look at that, we're bigger than Dell" mail sooner.

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