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To: steve harris who wrote (111414)	5/17/2000 9:20:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 1577025

steve, This has all the earmarks of a huge flop. Intel wants memory committments, they want to be paid for *all that is ordered*. That means if Intel say we want 10,000,000 sets on hand for the launch of 5,000,000 chipsets and boards over a 6 month period, then Intel must pay cash for those and eat them no matter what. If they are 128Meg sets they could be $400 each or 4 billion $ on the line. Intel will have to gulp deep and do it or else the memmakers will just make a few....to be on the safe side. It could be a successful launch, I give it a 1/1000 chance of complete sucess. the down side is the other 999, all the way from bad chipsets to bad mobos to bad memhubs....you pick 'em. On the other hand, I am sure they are checking all possible details in great depth...so it just might work. As the girl says, "That'l cost ya extra" Bill

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