Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: How much for a 487SX?!! Message-ID: <3370022@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 6 May 91 02:34:02 GMT References: <1991Apr22.155803.8093@tandem.com> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 37 / phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) / 2:16 am May 3, 1991 / writes: $ You do have a good point. If you don't buy the Am386, you may not have $ a chance to buy the Am486. Bringing products like this to market takes $ an enormous amount of work and money and AMD has taken a big gamble on $ the Am386. If Intel succeeds in killing it with the 486sx, AMD may not $ have enough resources left to develop the Am486. $ It might help if AMD lower the price and fulfil its perceived mission of freeing the world from Intel monopoly (which translate to CPU at more reasonable price). Of course, this might start a price war which AMD might not be able to live through (pure speculation here). But, on the other hand if Am386 didn't really offer any price performance advantage, then the world might not be really keen to buy from AMD and AMD might not sell enough Am386 to recoup R&D cost etc. etc. (again pure speculation here). So, which path is AMD going to choose ? $ (These are my opinions only, not that of the company, but of course I $ have a vested interest.) $ These are also my very own opinion. And I think so far, AMD doesn't have a sure fire formula. We are waiting......... Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, you are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include