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If the workstations were twice as fast and cost twice as much they would still have a good market niche. Instead they were more like 30% faster and cost 10 tim
by jandrese 5y ago
If the workstations were twice as fast and cost twice as much they would still have a good market niche. Instead they were more like 30% faster and cost 10 times as much.
Intel eroded that speed delta pretty quickly too. The other chip makers were crushed by Intel's billions of R&D spending.
- ncmncm 5y agoMotorola's floating point was 5x as fast as Intel's. That wasn't enough to overcome market positioning.