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From: routh@eltanin.rtp.semi.harris.com (Kevin Routh x622)
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Subject: Re: Math chip wars...
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Date: 25 Jun 91 11:28:51 GMT
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On Jun 24,  5:43pm, Wild Rider wrote:
} Subject: Re: Math chip wars...
} 
} >[Intel chops prices on coprossors.]
} >>	As part of the move, pricing for all speed grades of the
} >>	387 was consolidated at $299."
} >>
} >>Wow, can you imagine the margins they must have on these chips?!?
}
} 	wow, can you imagine what it cost to develop these chips?!?
} 	wow, can you imagine the r&d that went into these chips?!?
} 	wow, do you think they just _maybe_ have recovered most of those
} 	development costs & can now pass on the savings to the consumers?!?
} 	wow, do you think even _intel_ may be sensitive to the market?!?
} 
} 	wow?!?
} 
} 	look, i'll bash intel any day of the week for their bash-begging
} 	designs.
}
}       let's just make sure when we bash them that it isn't _mindless_ bashing,
}
}-- End of excerpt from Wild Rider

No bashing was intended, I'm sorry it was perceived as such.  It was a
combination of amazement and envy.  I'm amazed that it's possible to
drop the prices that much (the costs must have dropped or the margins
are huge).  And as someone in the chip industry, I envy their status.
I am also happy because now I, and many, many more 386 computer owners
can afford a math chip.  

--
Kevin Routh (routh@rtp.semi.harris.com)
Harris Corporation, Durham, NC
(919) 361-1622