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At 07:45 AM 4/16/97 -0700, Randy Whittle wrote: >>Have they dropped the IBM 586 brand? They were badging those as part of the >>deal for fabbing the cyrex chips. > > 586 "brand"? > > If they've cut a deal to fab with another chip mfgr. (i.e. Cyrix), that >would be whole different ball game entirely, as then the chip would at >least *partly* be an "IBM". The deal was (in part) that they manufacture the chips for Cyrex, and get some quota that they can make extra and sell under their own brand name. They were also fabbing the Nextgen clones, but I don't know if they still are now that AMD (with their own fab line) has bought Nextgen. THe last I knew, IBM has never built Pentiums under Intel license. That deal stopped at the 486 level. Though I have had some close contact to these issues, all this info has been in public press releases. -Don Perley perley@cadence.com