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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (213105)	10/11/2006 4:23:40 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: I have read the complaint. And I was buying systems in the marketplace and talking to OEMs during the period. AMD's Opteron launch was based on the solectron platform with backup from MSI and Tyan. But the selectron was the high volume board with 8 memory slots - enough to provide this 64-bit superchip with the memory it needed at a time when DIMM density was a lot lower than today. Arima was able to step in with limited supply, but they were a band-aid. Intel extorted solectron to refuse to ship the AMD boards through tortuous third party interference. I worked with supermicro for months during which I was told supermicro had a whole lineup of boards ready - and I was sent detailed specs and photos - but they were waiting for permission from Intel to ship the parts. There are a lot of great people and terrific engineers at Intel, but, overall, Intel is the mob. They used threats and punishments to close the markets and turn the CPU business into a communist style monopoly. Intel should be broken up like any other crooked, abusive monopoly.