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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (40341)10/29/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 1573841
 
Elmer, I have often wondered why the Alpha was so expensive. I expect the main cause is the dev and plant costs spread over such a small production base. Makes me wonder if they had tried the japanese method and headed for volume at low price would they have given Intel more of a run for their money? True it differs from x86, but the raw speed might have developed markets and programs for it had it been sold at the same price as Intels chips but faster. One of DEC's errors? or the only path they could follow?

Bill
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