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- From: wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe)
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:26:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp>
- References: <DOCONNOR.93Jan7094831@potato.sedona.intel.com> <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- In article <1iimlfINN7b1@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
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- >Intel is making tons on the 486, so may not be motivated to release
- >the 586 immediately, but they won't cancel it! The 586 may be delayed
- >to be a more effective "AMD buster" or "Cyrix Killer." They're probably
- >stockpiling, or enhancing it somehow. Remember, there were working 586
- >systems running at Comdex. Intel would RUIN it's relations with it's
- >customers to cancel the chip now.
- >
- >Absolutely won't happen...
-
- Never say never. Intel announced it was phasing out the i486SL, and moving
- that technology to all it's i486 family. That minor product reordering
- ticked off a number of major customer's (NEC, Compaq, etc) who were
- designing notebooks around the SL. I've read where they're even looking
- now at Cyrix because of it (although I tend not to believe everything I
- read :). Intel will do whatever is in the best interests of Intel. If
- Intel decides at the highest levels that it makes better sense to continue
- to stretch the i486 architecture and quietly bypass the Pentium and release
- the P6 (which is derivative of the P5, I'm sure), Intel could stomp
- Cyrix, AMD, NextGen, and anybody else chasing after the P5. It would make
- one hell of a marketing coup to be able to stay well ahead of NextGen's
- rollout of their P5 clone by releasing the P6 when NextGen releases their
- P5 clone. And Intel could re-establish themselves as the pre-eminant
- X86 manufacturer _again_. AMD and Cyrix/TI would wind up being in the
- commodity 386 chip game, with very low margins. That would be good for
- Intel in the long run, since it would further spread 386 architecture
- systems, bolstering software development for that platform, and
- assuring continued support for some time to come.
-
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