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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??
Keywords: 80386 Export Embargo -- is it true ??
Message-ID: <246@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 91 16:05:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1991Feb14.163528.10768@contact.uucp>
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>In <1991Feb13.125307.29232@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> testurm@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm ) writes:

>>I've heard rumours, that the US-Government has layed an
>>embargo on the export of 80386-Processors !
>>Is this true, and when why ???

	Quite the contrary. The Commerce Dept. has actually eased restrictions 
on i386 and comparable Motorola chips to several of the COCOM countries.

guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux) writes:

>That's not what I heard.  I've heard that Intel's only i386 and i486 chip
>source is in Tel-Aviv (you know, SCUD-SCUD)  !!!!!

	According to a recent PC Week article, Israel is one of several
countries in which the 386 family of chips are produced. (A good bit of
design work is also done there.) In the event the plant were hit, Intel
has other facilities in the U.S. and Asia that could supply the chips.


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