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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
- Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:27:49 GMT
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- >Anyone got any suggestions on what prices are going to do over the
- >next 6 months to a year?
-
- Until AMD(or another company, AMD is simply the most likely) comes out with
- a 486DX clone that is 100% i486DX compatible(or backward compatible if the
- new chip is better. (ie-386DX-40)) 486 prices will stay constant.
-
- As it is right now, Intel is having a little trouble keeping up with the
- demand for 486 chips.
-
- Until a true 486 clone is made, Intel has no reason to significantly lower
- the price of 486DX chips.
-
- I expect that very soon, Intel will lower the price of 486SX chips so that
- it would be silly to buy a 386DX or SX.
-
- AMD is most likely going to get its 486 clones out 2Q93, and the 586 will
- have been out for a few months by then. I figure 486 prices will fall
- much, and 586 prices will too, though they will still remain relatively
- high.
-
- A few months after AMD gets its 486 clones to the market, 386's will become
- a dead market, like 286's today. Low-power 486 chips will be out, and 486SX
- chips and others less-powerful 486 chips will be priced so low as to make
- buying or even selling a 386 pointless.
-
- I'm just curious as to when/what chips other companies will make for
- Overdrive sockets. I think that is becoming a nice market. WIth all
- the various chips around...it's only a matter of time before companies
- figure out how to clone an Overdrive chip, and begin offering other chips
- besides Intels for that socket. I figure these will start appearing in the
- 1st half of 1993.
-
- whew...man, all these predictions of mine are not far into the future at
- all...a little of 6 months.
-
-