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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (96181)3/1/2000 9:40:00 PM
From: Epinephrine  Read Replies (1) of 1571405
 
Elmer,

A blast from the past from the book "Inside Intel - Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company" (page 195) referring to Intel's efforts to quell enthusiasm and market acceptance of Motorola's superior solution at the time. (Operation Crush)

"But the revolutionary step taken by the task force was to abandon a rule that had guided Intel from it's very inception: never to announce products until they were in manufacturing and on distributor's shelves. "Intel delivers" was an important idea to keep in customers minds; that was why it had been adapted by McKenna for the new slogan. But it was now more important to tell them what Intel expected to be delivering in the future....Motorola fell for it. Instead of dismissing the products that Intel had preannounced as "vaporware" or "paper tigers", the company rushed out its own far less impressive futures catalog."

Who says history does not repeat itself, I sure hope AMD has enough sense to not be drawn into this vapor war. from your link:

"Hewlett-Packard will start shipping consumer PCs containing Intel's Pentium III running at 1 GHz (1,000 megahertz) later this month, sources at HP said. Corporate computers containing these chips won't come out until June. "

And

"The 1-GHz systems, therefore, could be a tight commodity. HP might start shipping these computers, but only a few customers will get their hands on them."

June, is the real release, this is vapor. Again, I hope that AMD shows some restraint. JMHO

Thanks,

Epinephrine
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