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In article <35420@cup.portal.com> brad@cup.portal.com (Paul B Anders) writes:
| Brian McMinn of AMD writes :
| > [Brian points out a side benefit of Intel not releasing any bug
| >    lists: it helps defer the competition from updating]

Brad Anders of Intel replies:
| Perhaps if AMD would develop some original products of its own that could
| generate the revenue that the "second-sourced" and cloned Intel parts do,
| then poor AMD wouldn't have to worry about the "deplorable" actions of 
| Intel.
| 
| Brad Anders
| 
| brad@cup.portal.com
| anders@gemini.intel.com

Rather interesting reply.. Brian was/is involved with an AMD original
product.. the Am29000 and Am29050. Granted, they don't pull in the
revenues that the i386 does, but they are giving Intel headaches in
the embedded arena. I guess your reply wouldn't have been so amusing
had it been someone else other than Brian. :-)

To address the issue that you raise.. you might want to ask yourself the
question of how valuable the 80286 and later generations would be had
AMD not second sourced them at their earlier stages? Would they be as
widely accepted as they are today? 

-Scott
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Scott McMahon - 29k Advanced Processor Development - Advanced Micro Devices
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