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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
12 May 2020 Acquired Adapting Episode 3: Intel
“I think that was another decision on the level of maybe not quite as big as sole-sourcing the 386, but having lived through the crazy or near-death experience of competition and becoming a commodity of memories, they were so paranoid about losing their power advantage in CPUs, that they're going to do anything to maintain it.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 12 May 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Adapting Episode 3: Intel
Transcript context
…Wow. That's like the Bobby Axelrod billions quote, "When you know you have an advantage, press it." Yeah. Andy doesn't talk at all in the book about that. I think that was another decision on the level of maybe not quite as big as sole-sourcing the 386, but having lived through the crazy or near-death experience of competition and becoming a commodity of memories, they were so paranoid about losing their power advantage in CPUs, that they're going to do anything to maintain it. Wow.…
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