Andy Bryant Market Quotations

We held market share in units in the quarter.

What we're trying to do is win back market segment share at the low end, and we did that in the first quarter. You'll see us continue to compete very aggressively. On the other hand, you won't see us lowering prices more than we need to to win the business.

We said that our goal in the quarter would be to maintain, and if possible, to gain some market share,

The simple answer is, we anticipated third-party chip sets coming into the market quicker than they did. The chip-set imbalance we think got us, hopefully, one last time.

Operating results for the quarter are consistent with our outlook in July. We continue to see healthy growth worldwide in the PC market and in Intel's revenue and gross profit.

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The microprocessor and flash businesses are on track, while the networking silicon market is slower than we anticipated.