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From: phil@motaus.sps.mot.com (Phil Brownfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SOME ADVICE FOR NEXT
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.172914.25929@motaus.sps.mot.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 17:29:14 GMT
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In article <3560@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
>In article <57835@microsoft.UUCP> edwardj@microsoft.UUCP (Edward JUNG) writes:
>>
>>Witness MIPS, for example.  They do not really produce chips themselves,
>>
>Sorry, but MIPS have been designing their chips for a number of years. In
>fact, it's THEIR chips that people like Dec, SGI, CDC, etc are using for
>their machines

Design != produce.  MIPS has no silicon fabrication facilities; their
MPU customers either license the rights to fab silicon themselves and/or
buy from foundries.
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Phil Brownfield
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