Bill, >>>Never. intel would sell them for $500+ and make 10-15 billion a year.<<<
That's BS. Even before AMD had a competitive product, Intel had regular, quarterly price reductions to pass on product yield and other cost improvements to their customers. Before the K6, you could get a damn good computer for $2K that had more power on the desk than mainframes of ten years before that.
Did you know that, if cars had kept up with computers in terms of cost , speed and reliability, over the last thirty years, you could buy a car for $10, that you could drive safely at 500 mph*? Instead, cars have only gotten more expensive, and I'm not sure about their reliability. OTOH, computers have gotten phenomenally more powerful, cheaper and reliable thanks to Intel and a few others companies.
* Until the car's equivalent of software crashed.
Tony |
