Talk:Packard Bell/Archives/2014

Important controversy overlooked.

Packard Bell in the early-mid 90's had Intel manufacture motherboards (486: Aries, Saturn, et al) and then complete systems (in Maylasia?) for PB, for which PB owed Intel Billions of dollars and subsequently Intel forgave the debt. Intel built similar (identical) systems for Gateway although no information on money paid was available. Theory is that the then high market share (closely observed by other OEMs) and popular with consumers (in part due to lower cost) would help drive Intel Hardware initiatives (Example Compaq still used VESA Local Bus but Intel promoted PCI, IBM used AMD486-100 while Intel hawked Pentium, AT&T used (386 era) "Cobra" chipset incompatible with plug-and-play hardware standard). Note PB did not sell systems with AMD (or other mfg chips)like other manufacturers. I think this was significant however finding a reference 20 years after the fact will be daunting. Shjacks45 (talk) 23:17, 9 April 2014 (UTC)