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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM
NSM 18.270.0%Jul 31 5:00 PM EST
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (27450)6/15/1998 1:21:00 PM
From: AB  Read Replies (1) of 33344
 
FTC to broaden probe of INTC:

Sources confirm that FTC lawyers are probing whether interface changes
Intel made in its Pentium chip design represented an improvement in
performance or instead created incompatibilities that locked in OEMs.

The change involved replacing the chip-level Socket 7 CPU interface used in
Intel's original Pentium with a proprietary Slot 1 interface based on a so-called
P6 bus used between the current Pentium II module and the motherboard. The
new module encapsulates a fast, low-voltage, wide CPU bus, a separate
cache bus and special, dedicated cache SRAMs.

Commission officials won't comment on the probe, but sources said the FTC
has received complaints about Intel's growing dominance of core-logic chip
sets. Intel's market share is said to have reached 85 percent since the change
was made.

eet.com

BTW Paul et al, in case you haven't noticed, CYRX is no longer an individual company, so whether they made or lost money in the past really does not matter. What does matter is that NSM is a larger company with a lot more resources and partners that apparently has brought a 0.25um fab online in record time and is also working on a 0.18um process. CYRX was outgunned form the start; for NSM, the show has only just begun.

Anthony
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