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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (52610)	3/14/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

Kevin - Re: "DEC essentially "stuck it to 'em." I think DEC thought the same thing. Intel knew otherwise. Amazing what can happen to one product when the management, marketing and engineering changes hands. Intel now has a good 8 inch wafer fab that they are upgrading and a StrongARM business that will probably generate $1 BILLION in sales in a year or two. Who knows - Intel's StrongARM business may grow to be larger than AMD's x86 business within 5 years. Paul

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (52610)	3/14/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1575538

Re: "I do believe that Intel didn't really want the fab in the first place, and that DEC essentially "stuck it to 'em." I think Intel was really glad to get that StrongArm license. The fact that they are capacity constrained shows it wouldn't quickly convert over to an existing Intel process so they had a good use for the fab as well. Time will tell who suckered who. EP

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (52610)	3/14/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575538

Kevin - Re: <I do believe that ...> It is clear that INTC didn't choose to buy the fab. They paid for it as a result of theft of intellectual properties that was caught, a court decreed punishment for the wrongs they performed. The current question is - Is INTC intentionally short manufacturing the sa chips? That kind of behavior is why justice dept. demanded alternative manufacturing sources for the Alfa series. Should they have demanded alternative sources for all the DEC chips? Should they demand alternate source for all X-86 chips? Is INTC rico liable? 3 strikes your out - how many strikes is this for INTC? tgptndr