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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Time Traveler who wrote (32150)4/24/1998 2:50:00 AM
From: Adrian Wu  Read Replies (1) of 1583494
 
Re: <However, when Intel shuts off the pipe flow of Socket-7 CPUs, what would the MB manufacturers do? I would say they have to stop producing too many Socket-7 MBs.>
How many Pentium Pros does Intel ship each year? How come almost all motherboard manufacturers of significance produce PPro motherboards? And how about the DEC Alpha? Why hasn't it died from a lack of motherboard support? 12 million socket 7 chips from AMD each year is not insignificant, especially for small motherboard manufacturers. Add on Cyrix and IDT and this becomes even more significant. AMD is projected to ship 30 million chips next year, and this is not an insignificant amount (25% of the projected market).
The cost of designing and producing socket 7 boards are low, and most of the R&D cost has already been amortized. There may be a little more expense dealing with the 100MHz bus, but this is not much. That's why even those "obscure 34 motherboard makers" can produce them.
I'm sorry that your post exposes your ignorance badly. Asus, Abit and FIC are amongst the top motherboard makers in the world. In fact, these companies make motherboards for OEM customers such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway. As for core logic producers, the top players are Intel, ALi, VIA and SIS. They may be obscure to you, but certainly not to anyone who work in this industry.
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