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To: Gary Ng who wrote (87940)	9/7/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Respond to of 186894

My recollection is that AMD was going to develop some other chips like disk controllers and share them with Intel. If memory serves (and I am really stretching here), AMD failed to come up with commercially useful parts, so Intel got nada for giving stuff to AMD. AMD claimed that they designed the chips so that they kept their end of the bargain. Not the kind of company you ever make a second deal with.

To: Gary Ng who wrote (87940)	9/7/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 186894

Gary, That sounds like a valid reason, second sources are often rqeuired. As I recall AMD was far better at making the 286 than Intel, made far faster parts. As to the design exchange, I think the integration of the chip sets made stand alone drive controllers useless...not that the AMD design was bad...there was no need for it. Sound AMD carried out their part of the deal in making the design for Intel...but the market moved away from them into the current total chip set arena. Thanks Bill