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Digital Assimilated (10/27/97)
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Meanwhile, Digital has met the enemy-- and they are it.

That's right; just as Microsoft and Sun enter into lawsuits and countersuits, another long-standing legal battle has come to an end. Months after Digital sued Intel for violating patents in development of the Pentium (and Intel countersued Digital for patent violations in development of the Alpha), the end came not with a bang, but a buyout-- Intel is purchasing Digital's semiconductor operations as part of the settlement. Yahoo has the press release.

Pending government approval, the two chipmaker giants will team up to produce both Pentiums and Alphas-- and Intel's Next Big Chip, the Merced, which Intel is developing with Hewlett-Packard. Digital also agrees to produce a full line of Merced-based systems, for which it will port its own flavor of Digital Unix.

This likely doesn't bode well for the PowerPC alliance, who no longer have Digital's Alpha playing Perot to split the vote. We may have just seen the first ugly step towards a long, dark era of non-competition in the chip world. We weep for the death of the spirit and the soul. (Hey, who doesn't?)

 
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The above scene was taken from the 10/27/97 episode:

October 27, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 124: Duelling Lawsuits (10/27/97)   It's an immutable law of high-tech big-business litigation: "What sues, then gets sued." And the legal shenanigans between Sun and Microsoft are no exception; a scant three weeks after Sun sued Billy & Co. for breach of contract, Microsoft has followed suit. And filed suit. To be exact, they filed a lawsuit alleging-- all together, now-- breach of contract....

  • 126: Jobsian Suspense (10/27/97)   Well, the long-awaited and widely-rumored announcement of Steve Jobs' permanent CEO-ship didn't come today, and the most vocal of the predicters, thessaSOURCE, is now reporting that the announcement may be delayed for a few days...

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