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To: grok who wrote (67278)	8/2/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1574054

Re: The drdrams may be soldered on the mobo I think that it's pretty much inevitable for this price range - I'm a little surprised we haven't seen more of it already. The Gobi machines will probably be built the same way. But a machine with soldered RAM will most likely not have provision for expansion - ever. It's rough making money selling to that market - and intel had best be careful, if "Intel Inside" starts to be perceived as a low end, minimal machine, it may become hard to convince people to pay for coppermine instead of K7.

To: grok who wrote (67278)	8/2/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574054

Re: You bet it will be a cheap motherboard After a little more thought, I'm not sure timna's such a great idea, at least, not if that's the way they architected its memory. It will be competing with Gobi, VIA's new integrated chip, and anything else that comes out in the next 6 month with a memory subsystem that requires twice the count of components that are 30% to 50% more expensive each. What were they thinking? Why design an entry level chip that requires double the count of the only other expensive component on the motherboard? Why not integrate a memory controller onto the chip and halve the count of expensive DRDRAMS? Dan