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It's lunchtime so I googled - Siemens did have a collaboration with Intel and built processors at least through the 286 in Europe - I found a picture of one mar
by buescher 5y ago
It's lunchtime so I googled - Siemens did have a collaboration with Intel and built processors at least through the 286 in Europe - I found a picture of one marked "Austria". This would have been completely unremarkable at the time, nothing to stake national pride on. Given the cultural and business style differences between Intel and Siemens, that process could have possibly been harder than ripping off the masks and pirating the chip! As an aside in that vein, it looks like Intel and Siemens caught a real cold working together on the project that became the i960. One of the pitfalls of advanced development is you can go wrong...