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Article #991Re: Intel Price Increase
From: Damian Kennedy
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:39
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:39
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In article <PHR.92Sep28164354@napa.telebit.com>, phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) writes: >I've heard that there is an industry-wide shortage of 486's. >Retailers are having trouble getting stocks. >Obviously, anyone in a position to cash in on the shortage is doing so, >including perhaps the people responsible for causing it. > > Generic disclaimer, > --Paul I've been told in the last few days ,that typicially in Taiwan companies that have been placing orders for 5K of 386DX40's from AMD have been recieving 1K and not getting any delivery time on the balance. Don't think its just Intel, love to know just exactly what is doing this, I've seen it before when the price of DRAM was artificially forced up by a cut in production. This seems to have all the hall marks of that. - Damian KENNEDY_D@KOSMOS.WCC.GOVT.NZ
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!newshost.wcc.govt.nz!kosmos.wcc.govt.nz!KENNEDY_D Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Intel Price Increase Message-ID: <1absjkINN1de@golem.wcc.govt.nz> From: kennedy_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Damian Kennedy) Date: 30 Sep 1992 09:39:00 GMT Reply-To: kennedy_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz References: <1992Sep25.183805.22007@tamsun.tamu.edu><1992Sep25.213837.17068@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>,<PHR.92Sep28164354@napa.telebit.com> Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Lines: 20