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AMD (AMD) Keeps True Believers

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Intel’s (INTC) margin problems, which have taken its shares down over 5% today, have not been nearly as hard on its smaller rival AMD (AMD). Its shares are off only 2.3% on a big down day for tech.

A look at the Intel numbers should scare AMD holders, but it hasn’t. If Intel’s margins go squeezed, it would stand to reason that there is still a price was going on. And AMD should suffer a similar decline in gross margins.

Perhaps it is because AMD expectations are so low.

Analysts looking for -$0.85 after warnings now on $1.26 billion revenues. The real problem is that even if the company is able to ink a turnaround is that the it is expected to post losses for fiscal 2007 and even in 2008.

But, AMD’s number could be worse than that. Intel’s certainly were.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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