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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!mcrware!adam
- From: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg)
- Subject: Re: P5 Delayed 3 months
- Message-ID: <adam.711988174@mcrware>
- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <1992Jul23.150535.11014@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:29:34 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-SRC (608)873-6651) writes:
-
- >I read in today's NY Times that Intel is delaying the introduction of its
- >P-5 chip until early 1993, instead of this fall.
-
- >Intel claims that the P5 will be more thoroughly debugged than the 486 was
- >at its introduction and will be available in large quantity at its intro-
- >duction, avoiding the "Osborne effect."
-
- Why would Intel want to have the P5 available in large quantities at
- introduction? Its completely against their interests, here's why:
-
- o To have quantities available at introduction, the introduction must
- have been delayed while the chips were being produced, thereby
- delaying even further the introduction (and the $$ generated).
-
- o If the chip were unavailible in quantity at introduction, then
- until they became widely available, they would cost quite a bit
- more. If Intel could delay widespread availibility for, say, 3
- months, then for those 3 months the chip could (easily) cost, say,
- $300 more than otherwise. And Intel knows that there will be
- high demand for them either way, therefore demanding a premium from
- those who require the 'latest and greatest' won't decrease the
- overall profit of the product (which would be decreased if the
- extra $300 per chip would have been offset by large sales -- the
- large sales will occur anyway...just later).
-
- I don't see Intel doing this. They'll try to get every penny out
- of the chip they can.
-
- --
- Adam G.
- adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg
- The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial
- statements of Microware, or any Microware employees.
-