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To: Adrian Wu who wrote (32157)	4/24/1998 11:59:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) of 1583505

You raised a good point about the availability of Ppro and Alpha motherboards despite lower volume. However, these systems are considered high-end. Therefore, you can always find some one else supporting them because of higher profit margin. On the other hand, Socket-7 and super Socket-7 are not considered high-end. Correct me if I am wrong. The profit margin is thus lower. Oh, how many folks are still manufacturing x486 motherboards? Got my point? By the way, National Semiconductor/Cyrix are endorsing Slot-I. That leaves only AMD and IDT (who?). There are over 70 motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan. I know you are in Hong Kong, but haven't you asked the Taiwanese about the future of Socket-7? I guess you are very much in the dark as all these die-hard AMD investors. Is it true that when Intel ask the Taiwanese to jump. Then the Taiwanese would ask Intel how high. Back to your 34 obscure motherboard makers, I know Asus are big. So I did not consider them to be obscure. And also, Dell as I understand buy Intel motherboards or motherboards with Intel reference-design only, but Compaq insist on designing and producing their own motherboards. Time Traveler

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