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In article <BwrHnw.M7E@news.iastate.edu>, cfrandal@iastate.edu (Charles F Randall) writes:
|> 
|> Just as the subject line reads... Does Intel use "just-in-time
|> inventory system"?
|> 
|> I'm having some delays getting my new '486 system (I'm so impatient...) 
|> and my fiance (in a trans-log class now) says they told her in class that
|> Intel uses the "just-in-time inventory system" to reduce costs and this 
|> could be part of the cause in my delay.
|> 
|> From her book,
|> just-in-time inventory system: An inventory control system that
|> attempts to reduce inventory levels by coordinating demand and supply
|> to the point where the desired item arrives just in time for use.
|> 
|> The folks I ordered my PC from are claiming that they're being delayed
|> by a shipment of processors from Intel.  Could this be true? Is Intel
|> having problems meeting the demand of '486 chips in a timely manner?
|> Are they scaling down production of '486 chips for some reason?
|> (pre-production of the P5?)
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> -Randy
|> 
|> Charles F. Randall IV |    _               | "Are you kidding? I study
|> Aerospace Engineering |  == \---------..,  |  from crisis to crisis!"
|> Iowa State University |  ==___-----_____>  |       -anonymous student
|> cfrandal@iastate.edu  | _____b________d___ | <== ascii space shuttle

No, certainly they make an ultimate amount of money out of it. AMD announced their
486 clone to be introduced at the CeBit fair next year. Intel claims to show
P5 applications at the same time. 

Think why ...
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