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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (41305)11/12/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (3) of 1571780
 
Re: "Here the K6 is about 20% cheaper than the Celeron and the K6 is cheaper to make than the celeron and so both might tend to have the same gross profit margin to Intel/AMD and the boards that make the systems up are somewhat cheaper and so are the cases. "

Bill, another poster with a poor reputation for accuracy claimed Celeron yields were in the 70s. I believe that is wildly low but even at that number the die cost would be ~$25. In reality the actual cost may be much lower. At 100 DPW the cost would be well under $20. Packaging and test cannot be greater than $25 so a worst case cost must be < $50. Perhaps much less. Perhaps below $40. The cost estimates of $60-80 just don't stand up. When socket 370 hits the scene the costs will drop further. The Celeron is the high volume/low cost leader and will ship 2x the K6 in Q4.

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