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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: News Release - Pentium - "INTEL UNVEILS NAME FOR ITS FIFTH GENERATION COMPATIBLE MICROPROCESSOR"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.215647.15053@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 21:56:47 GMT
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- In article <GLEW.92Nov9230655@pdx007.intel.com>, glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:
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- | I don't think I "iced over" the release date question - for the very
- | good reason that I don't know. I didn't work on that chip. The release
- | date is up to marketing.
-
- Unfortunately, that's true. It has no relation I can see to when Intel
- will actually manufacture the chip! Intel was talking about this chip
- years ago, and it was scheduled for a year ago (4Q91), then 1Q92, then
- 3Q92, then early 1Q93, then late 1Q93, and now the last word I heard was
- FCS in 2Q93. Which really means that the chip will be in customer's
- hands at stable prices by 1Q94 *if Intel doesn't slip it again*.
-
- What Intel marketing is doing is dangling the product just out of
- reach to discourage major users from scraping DOS and Intel and going to
- a reasonable workstation to get affordable performance. Just as IBM
- dangles OS/2 out there to keep people from going to UNIX.
-
- And when it comes out and vendors are charging $2k per chip because
- everyone's on allocation Intel will promise to ramp up production, just
- as they did with the 486. And just like the 486 the actual price drop
- will come when AMD releases a faster cheaper 486, and not a moment
- before. This is my prediction. The 386 dropped when the fast 286's came
- out, the 486 dropped when the fast 386's came out, and I predict that
- the 586/P5/Pentium will be out in volume and at reasonable price only
- when people refuse to buy them.
-
- I've started now.
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