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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (86647)8/5/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
<Intel drove Cyrix and IDT into the ground...they thought...>

Yeah, right. Cyrix's engines stalled for the past few years, all even before the big Celeron push. And IDT never got off the ground in the first place, and the end of the runway was quickly approaching.

<Appears all they did was drive the technology offshore into a lower cost basis.>

Considering how Via's chipsets were underpowered and unstable compared to Intel's, imagine how well they're going to do x86 processors, especially with Intel and AMD pushing ahead like never before.

Tenchusatsu



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (86647)8/5/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
McJimbo - Re: "Intel drove Cyrix and IDT into the ground...they thought...Appears all they did was drive the technology offshore into a lower cost basis"

Intel did nothing of the sort.

Cyrix and IDT had no real technology - just inferior products that they couldn't produce and sell economically.

VIA won't do any better with these products - although they may make them cheaply - assuming they can get decent and "cheap" wafer foundry capacity.

Paul


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