🚀 go-pugleaf

>Anyone got any suggestions on what prices are going to do over the
>next 6 months to a year?

Until AMD(or another company, AMD is simply the most likely) comes out with
a 486DX clone that is 100% i486DX compatible(or backward compatible if the
new chip is better. (ie-386DX-40)) 486 prices will stay constant.

As it is right now, Intel is having a little trouble keeping up with the 
demand for 486 chips.

Until a true 486 clone is made, Intel has no reason to significantly lower
the price of 486DX chips.

I expect that very soon, Intel will lower the price of 486SX chips so that
it would be silly to buy a 386DX or SX.

AMD is most likely going to get its 486 clones out 2Q93, and the 586 will
have been out for a few months by then.  I figure 486 prices will fall
much, and 586 prices will too, though they will still remain relatively
high.

A few months after AMD gets its 486 clones to the market, 386's will become
a dead market, like 286's today.  Low-power 486 chips will be out, and 486SX
chips and others less-powerful 486 chips will be priced so low as to make
buying or even selling a 386 pointless.

I'm just curious as to when/what chips other companies will make for
Overdrive sockets.  I think that is becoming a nice market.  WIth all
the various chips around...it's only a matter of time before companies
figure out how to clone an Overdrive chip, and begin offering other chips
besides Intels for that socket.  I figure these will start appearing in the
1st half of 1993.

whew...man, all these predictions of mine are not far into the future at
all...a little of 6 months.