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Week of November 16, 1999
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Backstabbing Motherboard Maker Supports A______ Chipset.

Talk about gratitude!

A certain motherboard maker we have enough class not to name here, A_____, stunned execs at Intel by releasing a non Intel supported motherboard last week. This sniveling, detestable excuse for a company secretly worked with A**, who'll probably be bankrupt in a year for making shoddy, overclocked processors, to produce an optimized board, designed especially for the non Intel chip.

"Thanks a lot, A____." said a broken, betrayed Intel marketing executive. "We had 96% of the market share for home-based PCs. Even Microsoft was getting scared of us. We were working on 99.9%, barring any Amiga users, when you went behind our back and stabbed us in our legally declared by Bay Area courts non-monopoly."

A____ executives, cowering over in Taiwan while bringing shame upon their ancestors, could only lower their eyes and stammer out apologies in a video conference held on the 2nd of this month. "We so sorry!" said one cowardly, money-hungry greedy half-man. "We no put A___ name on board. Nobody know we make A_______ chipset supported board."

Pitiful underling defends A____'s "right" to support non-Intel chips.
This is the second bit of trouble other companies have brought Intel in less than 2 weeks. Last week, a group representing "The Rights To Non-Polluted Water" or some such crap gently suggested that Intel's practice of dumping highly toxic chemicals into the local rivers might be causing environmental problems, as well as birth defects. "What a nice way of saying: 'Thanks for providing 400 manufacturing jobs.' sighed one Silicon Valley observer. "We provide these people with a steady source of temporary, $9 an hour contract manufacturing jobs and they stab us in the back, too."

Intel said that, unfortunately, given the situation it's facing with A____'s betrayal, it may have no choice but to either threaten to raise prices on chips or stop supplying A_____ with technical information critical to motherboard production. "How can we possibly expect to keep our market edge if people are going to compete against us?" sighed one Intel exec.