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Types of PCA's
Compaq U.S. segregated PCA purchases into five different
categories of PCA's: Processors, power supplies, memory boards,
video boards, and a catchall category entitled backplane/other.
At all sites, PCA's within each product category were built using
the same design guidelines, the same workmanship standards, the
same or virtually identical manufacturing equipment, the same
manufacturing process, the same materials purchased from the same
approved vendor list (AVL), and were tested using the same or
virtually identical test equipment and programs. Within each
category, the only differences in the PCA's were the particular
components used on each individual PCA and the time required to
process the PCA on the manufacturing line.
With respect to power supplies, the global power supply
market was made up of two distinct market segments--custom power
supplies and commodity power supplies--and the industry generally
acknowledged that commodity power supplies were of lesser quality
with limited functionality. Power supplies designed by Compaq
U.S. and Compaq Asia fell into the custom power supply market
segment.
Compaq Asia
In the mid-1980's, Compaq U.S. pursued material cost savings
allegedly available in Asian markets in both PC and PCA
manufacturing. Specifically, in 1984, petitioner began doing
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