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To: damniseedemons who wrote (18281)3/29/1998 11:04:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre  Respond to of 24154
 
Sal,

>There isn't enough capacity in the world to take up Intel's slack if they all-of-a-sudden decided to triple prices.

This sounds like something you pulled out of thin-air. Could you list the productive capacity of the world's chipmakers? Two years sounds kind of long for converting other processor lines over to Cyrix/AMD production. Besides if Intel starts price-gouging the consumer then Intel and MSFT would be sharing a love-seat at the next Congressional Hearing.

Take it easy,

Norm



To: damniseedemons who wrote (18281)3/30/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin  Respond to of 24154
 
Yeah, IBM is certainly one to watch. Personally, I don't know why they didn't get into x86 a
long time ago. They were Cyrix's and NexGenn's foundry--could have easily bought one of the
companies but instead stuck to the PowerPC chip.

I have also wondered about this lost opportunity.


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