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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Greater Fool who wrote (85819)1/7/2000 4:15:00 PM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (4) of 1572579
 
Ref- <"Most estimates say that the Celeron .25 costs between 25 and 30 dollars"

I find that a little hard to believe, as an MDR estimate I saw was considerably higher than that. >

Sorry Greater Fool, MDR is way off base on this one. MDR totally underestimates Intel's manufacturing efficiency, and assumes that all wafer fabs are equivalent.

A year ago I got the following Celeron cost breakdown :
Pkg -$7, test -$1,Chip -$16, Misc $1.

I would guess that today the Celeron cost is < $20.

Unfortunately for AMD, the K-62 package alone costs $20.

So Intel can churn out a lot of Celerons and still make a decent profit, although I grant you that a majority of the profits come from the PIII.

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