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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (26943)	12/19/1997 11:51:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579788

Yousef; Usually products are abandoned when they are unprofitable, or they lack capacity to make all products and cull the lower margin items. Are you saying that Intel dropped the older ones to free up foundry space for the newer ones? That is logical if they were short of space. When they built their larger lines was it at the same location as the older smaller ones, which were ripped out?, or did the new lines get built at new locations? In addition there might well have been collapse of consumption as all new builds went to 486 and pentiums. Were there ever any large uses for 386 and 486 other than PCs? Industrial, embedded? Bill