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From: croft@csusac.csus.edu (Steve Croft)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Intel Arbitration
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.224108.10251@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 90 22:41:08 GMT
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Second sourcing also insulates board manufacturers from a chipmaker's
marketing decsions;   e.g., chipmaker ABC decides they would rather turn
their CPU facilities into RAM manufacturing...  without a second source,
the board manufacturer is SOL...

Steve