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To: Elmer who wrote (69174)	8/18/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584419

Elmer, They do tend to be lower in cost than CPU's, but quite expensive and capable of good margins since they go everywhere and I think they are small in size? what is the die size of such a chipset? If it is small it can be profitable as long as it is high yield. If they have three times the yield and 1.3 rd the margin they are equal to the bottom line. They can make the wafers and job the others tasks out. I would have thought that the CPU maker would be best suited to dseign the chipset with the ability to fine tune the CPU and chip set for optimum, like Intel does. The dresden fab when running will it have the ability to make both the chipset and the CPU? Is there any need to make the chipset in copper for heat, speed etc reasons? If they have copper and Via does not what then for fast chipsets? The chipset does seem to work quite well, slow bus, but that will change. Any Athlon product been bought by someone on this thread? yet? Bill