Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!softart!ashok
From: ashok@softart.UUCP (Ashok C. Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: 8051 - 8751
Message-ID: <42@softart.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 88 21:39:12 GMT
Organization: Softart Microsystems Inc., Waterloo Ont. Canada
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> which can be programmed as a test.  Of course all this costs money hence the
> price.  Mind you, it doesn't cost THAT much; someone somewhere is making a
> large profit thank you very much! :-)

Of course someone is making a *huge* profit!  Why do you think that Intel is
single sourcing everything they can! (Does it *really* cost ~$200 (CDN) to make
an 8087?  they should have the process debugged by now...)  When you have
no competition and the customer *must* have a certain part, you can charge
whatever the market can bear (this price is usually just below the level that
would drive a designer to another part).  In the case of the 8051, there are
other sources and you should be able to get it from them much cheaper.  (Intel
had no choice on that one...the 8051 was designed at a time when the market
would not bear single sources....times change *sigh*).

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> Rob Clive.					UUCP:	mcvax!ukc!lucifer!rob
> Lucas Diesel Systems, Cirencester	 Most others:	rob%lucifer@ukc.ac.uk
> Gloucestershire, GL7 1QG, UK.				      Now read on....

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Ashok C. Patel
Softart Microsystems Inc.