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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (36014)	8/14/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572777

Paul, <"..right: it goes to DEC." You have that all backwards.> Yeah, it seems too hard for you to grasp... You are a real retire, Pauleron. You cannot think two steps in either way, nor forward, nor to the past. Don't you remeber why was all that boom about? I can remind you: Intel stole the DEC technology how to built microprocessors. That was the technology boost Dinesh is talking about. And now Intel has to pay for it, in the form of buying the out-of date non-profitable FAB from DEC. If you are still not convinced, let me remind you that all this has happen during EXCESS of FAB capaclty, so Intel even stopped development of the Texas fab. Remember? Actually, Intel did had some benefits from the deal: since they do not have creative engineers anymore, they failed to design any good 64-bit PCI bridges for their perspective servers (e.g. DELL uses the Digital bridges in their servers), and the deal gives to Intel this technology. It looks more and more that Intel has turned into a sort of dumb foundry, just a simple lithography, and is totally incapable to debug their own CPU and chipsets: look at Xeon/450NX scandal, all these system bugs that require to block or reload half of the microcoded Pentium-II instructions and dogs the performance...