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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Adrian Wu who wrote (38299)10/6/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) of 1574435
 
Adrian - Re: " Intel has to dress a top end chip as a low end product in or der to sell it."

You are missing the BIG PICTURE !

As Yousef and Elmer have pointed out, most of Intel's Pentium II speed distribution is centered at the HIGH END of the spec - near 450 MHz.

Thus, an extremely large percentage of their products will run from zero up to 450 MHz.

That simplifies the packaging and testing. Intel can package whatever chips they require for different market segments - 300 MHz Celerons up to 450 MHz XEONS - and be confident that each chip will meet the required speed specs.

A corollary is that it costs Intel very little extra money to make 450 MHz chips than it does 300 MHz chips.

Next year when the 0.18 micron products are out, you will be able to overclock your 500 MHz Katmai to 700 MHz.

Hope you can wait that long.

Paul
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