Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!mentor.gandalf.ca!dcarr
From: dcarr@mentor.gandalf.ca (Dave Carr)
Subject: Re: 80186 (Was: Re: When will the 8088 die?)
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.150959.12018@mentor.gandalf.ca>
Keywords: unix sci intel
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd., Nepean, Ontario, Canada
References: <1990Dec7.145839.2703@mentor.gandalf.ca> <10624@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1755@chinacat.Unicom.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 90 15:09:59 GMT

In article <1755@chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>
>The embedded controller market is the graveyard for failed CPU's.
>
Yeah, except that it represents about 95 % percent of the market for CPUs.  The 80x86
family may be a cash cow for Intel, but their bread-and-butter used to be the 
embedded market and probably still is.