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To: milo_morai who wrote (49452)	7/31/2001 7:38:02 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Milo, Looks like Intel is the ugly American all over the world. Rats to the end. theinquirer.net Dear Mike, Was just reading the news on Intel disturbing VIA 's marketing material and the subsequent denial from the chip major The news is more or less correct. But this is nothing new. Intel in India has done lots of good favours for the channels and the assemblers who prior to 1996 were looked down on as a downtrodden lot by most of the market commonly referred as grey marketeers or builders of PCs with building blocks from smuggled markets. India import duties are still very high -- in excess of 20%, back in 1996 it used to be nearly 100%. Today India has a vibrant assembler community, and with nearly 60% market share versus local OEMs and the big boyz like Compaq, HP, Dell. Intel virtually glamourised these assemblers, giving them Genuine Intel Dealer status and have spent millions in promoting these small vendors over the past few years. There are a couple of thousand GIDs in India today. But after AMD and more recently VIA has become strong in Indian market capturing about 15%, Intel has been a little paranoid ( a cultural issue, I guess). Intel has local sales reps who visit these shops (GIDs) and then threaten them with dire consequences, usually telling them that their GID status will be taken off. Hence these resellers will be advised (threatened) to take off banners, posters away from their premises. Almost all GIDs sell AMD and C3 processors secretly since they make more bucks on these chips in India. The news is not very new and has been going on for several years. In 1997, Intel sacked two GIDs because they openly told a popular computer weekly that they would not mind selling AMD chips. There have been similar incidents even in the recent past. It is a funny thing that many support Intel despite playing the bully. AMD and Cyrix are all tapping the same market which Intel has created and nurtured. And Intel is just being a little possessive about the whole affair. Thanx for writing about this part of the world Name and email address supplied µ

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