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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: the Am386(tm) is cool!
Message-ID: <4768@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 91 21:46:44 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.231609.5370@amd.com> <3360016@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <3360016@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) writes:
>Has the 386 price came down yet ?  I believe I remember that before
>Am386 hit the market, everyone was moarning that Intel was monopolising
>the whole 386 market and charging a premium for the chip. Everyone was
>hoping that when AMD enter the market, the price will drop substantially
>and that we will not have a chip with an obscene price.

Nope.  And it won't come down by very much.  Supply and demand set the
price in a free market system.  Right now, Intel cannot make 386 chips
fast enough to keep up with the demand.  Therefore, they can charge almost
anything they want.  When AMD starts making 386's, the price will come down
slightly, but the demand will still exceed the supply.  Why would AMD
dramatically lower the price when they can sell all they can produce at
Intel's prices?

Don't forget, AMD has to amortize their huge development costs.

}Is the Am386 officially in the market yet ? I am still seeing very high
}market price for Intel 386-33 here in Singapore.
}
}Are we having a situation where, "Instead of one company milking the
}industry, now we have two to do the job ???".   :-(

Yes.


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