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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RDM who wrote (47759)1/29/1999 12:49:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1571748
 
<My sense is that the K7 will be a $500-1000 chip for the higher performance parts. Thus the pin costs of support chips may not be significant.>

Actually, after having lunch with a couple of co-workers who work in the server motherboard manufacturing department, I get the feeling that the pin cost may be more expensive than people think. Making sure one set of pins runs at a high bus speed is tough enough. Having multiple point-to-point connections could be a big hurdle in high-volume motherboard manufacturability.

Remember, the key is high-volume. Even one or two million units per quarter is very high-volume for servers.

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