[Info-vax] AltaVista background information

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:
> Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
> 
>>A chip like Alpha, which causes annual costs of several hundred millions
>>for development and production, but only sells 100000 units per year
>>(HP website says/said 1M Alphas sold in 14 years) necessarily
>>has to be priced at several thousand dollars a piece.
> 
> 
> If the competition sells chips for $500 and you sell for 3 times as
> much, you will never have much success.

If the chip costs you three times the price you sell it for,
you won't have much success either.