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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!kgermann
- From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
- Subject: Re: P5 Delayed 3 months
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd.
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:46:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.144601.9895@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Jul23.150535.11014@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> <adam.711988174@mcrware>
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- In article <adam.711988174@mcrware> adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg) writes:
- >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.
-
- Cyrix has plans of releasing their own version of the P5.
-
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