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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (123453)9/1/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 1570842
 
Doug, to repeat again, pins just can't be that expensive, the pin count on most northbridge chips floats up around 500. I'd guess maybe $.01 a pin, not $.10 or $.05. You might also check out my favorite prove of principle, tomshardware.com , describing a 693-pin dual-sdram channel "budget" northbridge:

Despite its turbocharged memory interface, the Aladdin 7 is intended for very inexpensive systems. ABIT suggested a console device outfitted with an Aladdin 7 based motherboard and a DVD drive could retail under $300 U.S. Since the Aladdin 7 supports DVD decoding through hardware acceleration motion compensation, the system could serve as a DVD player/game machine.

I doubt very much that there's $35 worth of pins in that northbridge, much less $70.

Cheers, Dan.
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