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Every time there are supply problems in the PC industry, and as a salutary reminder of the difference between hardware and software manufacturers, never mind the bubble.com phenomenon, we boot up Caesar III to see a real life simulation of how markets work.

Intel has 70,000 employees working for it worldwide and a large number of fabrication plants, R&D centres, as well as a large headcount of admin, sales and marketing staff. It´s little wonder, therefore, that from time to time things go awry. On Friday, we reported that a large number of manufacturers have been told there will be continuing shortages of Coppermines until June.

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