From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: 486SXs as Unix Iron? Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:50:59 GMT
In article <1992Nov4.223834.9454@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
> Yeah, but on this one I agree with him. The only way to keep
> companies from doing silly marketing cruft like this is if people let
> them eat all those chips.
Well, if you're independently wealthy and can afford to let politics guide
your decisions, more power to you. But at least let your politics be informed:
> There was NO reason to come out with the
> 486SX other than to attempt predatory pricing on folks like AMD and
> Cyrix while keeping the price of the 486DX inflated.
If the 486 is so inflated, why haven't Cyrix or TI or someone come out
with an integrated FPU/CPU chip yet?
> There is no way
> I'm going to believe that the price difference between the 486SX and
> the 486DX can be explained by the cost of testing the math unit in the
> latter.
The 486SX is a different die, cheaper process, cheaper packaging, and so
on. It's a cheaper chip all around.
Keep your ire for the 487SX. There's plenty of real marketing bullshit to
get angry about to waste your time on the initial SX shipment (before they
got the cheaper FAB set up: no point in doing that if the chip wasn't going
to sell).
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