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Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC)
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (63928)9/4/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Gary Ng  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Paul, Re: Start remembering.

Intel critics never like to remember. They forgot(or
don't know) what Intel was during the 8080 days.

Back then, the dominant player in 'PC' was 6502(because
of Apple II) whereas for 'business PC' was Z80(I remembered
Apple II players needed a Z80 card to use applications like
viscalc or Wordstar).

IBM then chose 8088 for its PC but there were competitors
like NEC which has plug compatible chips(V20, V30, V40) to
boost the performance, very much like Cyrix, AMD today.

Even in the 386/486 days, AMD was a second source for Intel
(?) and I believed has a larger market share than today.

It was Pentium that started to pull Intel to the front
but during that period, there were still other players
like 680x0, PPC etc.

Intel fought and won battles after battles to become
what it is today, so what have changed which hint that
it will lose the next round ? I don't see any yet.

Gary
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