Second Source The x86? No Thanks
October 6, 2014
There was a time when Intel couldn’t give away rights to make the x86. National Semiconductor turned down the offer to second source the processor.
“I was on a skiing vacation with my family when I got a telephone call from Andy Grove at Intel,” recalls Charlie Sporck, CEO of National, in his book SPINOFF, “Andy said microprocessor sales were so strong that Intel needed a second source.
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