We had all these negative pre-announcements and the stocks aren't going down, and the sector is going up. The market is calling a bottom.

AMD just got unlucky in any number of ways but in the chip business, luck can change very quickly and you can make a lot of money. But it's going to be a tough stock to play and will be very volatile throughout the year.

The semiconductor industry is very, very cyclical; and when things are good - which they are now - they're always better than were expected. Of course, when things turn down, they always hit harder than anybody would have guessed. And right now what's happening on Wall Street is a lot of people are trying to kind of guess the top: are we there yet? There's really no way to tell.

We think Intel's antitrust issue is something to be concerned about, but it's only a No. 3 or No. 4 issue.

I walk about five steps into the next room.

What we're seeing is an extension of PCs. We're probably going to see those companies with PC exposure get penalized by association with the PC market. That's not necessarily fair across the board, but the bigger the exposure to PCs, I would say the bigger the uncertainty that there won't be a problem.