How are governments in China, Brazil and Russia addressing this issue?
China has passed a legislation and gone out of its way to persuade state and local governments to drop non-competitive practices. Brazil did the same thing. In the EU, the practice is to move away from specifying one brand or company in a tender process. AMD has been talking about the low-priced PC or the communicator for a while, but it seems not to have achieved any kind of momentum or sales with the customers, and the whole initiative seems to have gone into a lull of sorts… No, I don’t think so at all. As a matter of fact, if I look at AMD three years ago, our internal road maps today involve products that will be very low-cost, low-power. We still believe that there is a huge 3-billion-people market that is eager to access technology. I think it is an excellent market where the products have to be of adequate quality, price and value, and the communicators reflect the same. Which will succeed — the cellphone as the low-cost, low-power PC or the computing industry with a cheaper co
