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To: Elmer who wrote (71109)	2/8/2002 11:04:47 AM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, re: <Intel was relying on unreliable chipset support which was limiting their CPU sales so they decided to roll their own and thus took over the chipset business.> Yes. Something I wish AMD had the $ to do. The crappy chipset support was hurting INTC then & it cost AMD at least 1/2 year in volume on their Athlon intro., IMO. Re: <Meanwhile IBM had licensed the i386 and i486 for internal production but in partnership with MOTO and APPLE had designed the PPC so IBM declined to license Pentium.> I'm sure it made sense to IBM somehow. Actually, IIRC, the first iterations of the Pentium were sort of -- dogs? No, that's too strong. Disappointing. While everybody was talking about how great the PPC was. Such is the power of market share! tgptndr