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To: rudedog who wrote (35580)9/19/2000 10:59:55 PM
From: chic_hearne  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Re: I know what you're getting at, and I think that maybe this is that kind of Trojan Horse. But what do you think of the notion of using "fallout" SPARCII from the low end of the speed curve? It would take a cheap chipset, but otherwise that might make the economics work.

rudedog,

Any idea what the die size is for Sparc II?

If this was to be a large volume product, there could be issues with TXN's capacity.

My guess is in manufacturing alone Sparc plus chipset at a minumum will probably be $200 more than Athlon or Pentium of equal performance (due to 3rd party foundry, larger die size, and poor yeilds).

For a low end product, I think only a commodity product makes sense. This goes for Sparc, POWER, Alpha, and PA-RISC.

chic
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