Sylvester,
Oh, is that why they priced it so low, have 100K/week production and RDRAM rebate? Sorry, but the facts prove you wrong. The P4 is going to dominate the industry from the start. I predict 2 million P4s will be sold by end of Q1. All the items are there for P4s to be flying out the door. The $16 billion contract with EDS and Dell is icing on the cake.
P4 pricing is set very high, well above $500. In this price range, total x86 CPU sales have probably been much less than 2,000,000 for the entire year 2000. P4 will be a niche product for at least a year. Until it is ported to 0.13u, the die size and yields will not permit large scale production.
The EDS contract is in the range of $7 billion (not 16), spread out over five years. There was no mention of P4, or Dell being an exclusive provider.
The initial five-year contract was for $6.9 billion.
The Navy overestimated by 30 percent or more the cost of the contract, expecting it to be as high as $2 billion a year, Daniel Porter, the Navy’s chief information officer, told Reuters. At that rate, the five-year contract, with an option to extend for three more years, could have been worth up to $16 billion, the figure cited in many accounts of the deal.
msnbc.com
All of your "facts" are FUD, speculation, or outright misinformation.
Scumbria
BTW: Don't you love how eager the military is to overspend their budget? |
