Originally Intel had planned to produce motherboards itself, so in 1995 it bought in large stocks of ICs in preparation. But later the company decided not to produce motherboards, and began offloading its enormous stocks. For a time rumors were rife, other companies began dumping stock, and the artificially induced crash became unstoppable.
原來英代爾本有意自己生產電腦主機板，因此去年買進了不少積體電路備用；後來英代爾又決定不做了，將鉅量的存貨吐出，一時謠傳紛起，惡性崩盤遂一發不可收拾。