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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (47945)1/31/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: DRBES  Read Replies (2) of 1580429
 
re: "Most people don't realize that if Intel sold ~100 million processors then they sold ~200 million units out of their chip set division and at a nice profit too I'm sure."

Fortunately among those that do are Compaq, IBM, and an increasing number of the major box makers who do not want their entire destinies totally controlled by a vertically integrated iNTEL that dominates everything that they (the box makers) put into their boxes. iNTEL may have prematurely flagged their long term intentions when they introduced their family of motherboards that included the "Atlantis". The "Atlantis" was a dog though it enjoyed having a few very tempting beneficial qualities: It had built in sound and video cards. It ran Windows 95 and Windows NT much slower but more stably than most, but certainly not all, competing boards. Unfortunately these were supplied with extraordinarily poor drivers from iNTEL. We suffered a great inconvenience when most of our customers who elected Atlantis based machines required us the do the internet available upgrades even though they were readily available on the internet and were user available. In many cases this turned a small profit into a loss when the costs of our labor were factored in. iNTEL kept the poor driver version of the "Atlantis" in the supply stream well after the new drivers were available causing us even further unnecessary problems long after it made any sense at all.

The fear that Compaq, IBM, and many other box makers could well be that an unchallenged iNTEL that is vertically integrated will exert "kINGMAKER" control on the marketplace. The fear is that iNTEL might reward box makers such as DELL with advantages that can lead to market dominance while punishing the disloyal Compaq's and IBM's by making it more difficult for them to compete. I suspect that there are already numerous example of this.

ANY THOUGHTS ????

Regards,

DARBES
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