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To: FJB who wrote (26914)	5/27/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Intel Abandons Retail Distribution By Eva Jina Santa Clara, Calif. 11:31 AM EDT Wed., May 27, 1998 Flash: As a result of recent defections by OEMs to AMD and Cyrix, Intel has chosen to abandon their traditional business model. CEO Craig Barrett told reporters at a hastily drawn press conference that Intel had landed a contract with the National Security Administration (NSA) to deliver a massively parallel supercomputer containing over 1,000,000 Xeon Microprocessors. He remarked that "Intel will meet analyst expectations for the next 4 quarters based on this sale alone." He added "Why should we waste our time on two bit players like Compaq and HP who would rather sell competitors junk at a loss anyway." He went on: "The NSA sale will deliver over 20 billion dollars in revenues and only costs us about $180 to manufacture in our superior fabs. We will soon be able to deliver the 100,000 percent margins we promised our stock holders years ago." The NSA would not comment on the sale, but it is believed that they will use the supercomputer to break 512 bit public key encryption messages. Initially it is expected to be used to decrypt the NSM road map, which has proven incomprehensible to normal cryptographic techniques.