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To: John Hull who wrote (3189)	9/16/1996 11:10:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	of 186894

John, I'm looking at an article on page 26 of this month's Upside magazine, written by Michael Maibach, VP of government affairs for Intel. In it he presents a graph showing microprocessor life cycles, ranging in a progression from 7 years for the 4004 to 4 years for each of the 386 and 486's, and 2 years for the Pentium. The thing that surprised me is that the Pentium Pro, while captioned with an unknown lifetime, is plotted at what looks like a year or less. Can this be? I'd appreciate comments on this issue. I would have contacted Mr. Maibach directly, since his e-mail address is given in the article, but I thought I'd run my query through this forum so everyone can benefit. I don't see how this trend in life cycles can continue. If it did, soon every processor would be custom-made. But I'm curious to know how (or if) Intel intends to lengthen/maintain processor life long enough to make a profit on its designs. Thanks in advance, Charles Tutt

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