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From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Motorola policy
Message-ID: <2358@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 19:35:47 GMT
References: <2167@tekred.TEK.COM> <76000121@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: alan@pdn.UUCP (0000-Alan Lovejoy)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida
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In article <76000121@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
/
/Motorola and Intel are conspiring to monopolize the processor chip
/market.  With this new generation of chips (68020/030, 80386), both
/companies *refuse* to allow other chipmakers to second-source the
/product.  No second source means NO PRICE COMPETITION.
/
/So those $500 chips (16Mhz 68020, 16Mhz 80386) will probably cost $500
/for years to come, unlike the vanilla ($5) 68000/8086 chips.  These
/high prices will prevent technological progress, and open a "window of
/vulnerability" for japanese 32-bit processor chip makers to attack.

Moto SAYS they intend to sell '030s at $30/each before 1990 (from an
article in Electronic Design 9/86 quoting the head of Moto's 68030
design project).  Moto has every reason to cut prices: competition from
80x86s, SPARCs, Clippers, R2000s, 29000s and all the other fast 32-bit
MPUs.

If you consider the cost of the 68851 MMU, the 68030 is ALREADY cheaper
than the '020 at the same clock speed.

--alan@pdn