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To: Elmer who wrote (5707)4/23/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 6843
 
Elmer, <Intel is now making their own SRAMs for quality and performance reasons. You alluded to this.>
Yes, I explicitly "alluded" to the whole 222mm2 special
SRAM they are making for Deschutes, as our Paul
reported friendly. I also explicitly "alluded" that
the cost of silicon area is still the cost no matter
what is imprinted on it. Go figure yourself the total
cost: 130+222+...

<AMD needs SRAMS on the motherboard for their L2 cache>
Small correction: OEM designers need SRAMs, not AMD.
In the meantime, OEMs managed to sell the S7 boards
with 1M of L2 at about HALF the price of PII-LX/BX
boards. Go figure cost again...

BTW, the new contest is coming: Intel is going to
make L2 running at 1X core speed. Probably it will
cost a lot more than 1/2X SRAM. How stupid on
their part again: they will gain even less than
with 100MHz front bus. Much less. He-he.
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