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To: Paul Engel who wrote (76587)	10/23/1999 4:02:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 1585071

Paul, your reply was not responsive to my question. Everyone here knows that it takes incredibly expensive equipment to turn raw silicon into a finished chip. Not to mention packaging, testing, etc. My question was whether the cost of the silicon in a PII was actually 13 cents at 100% yield, as reported in the article ... not the cost to process those wafers into CPUs. Considering the equipment required to reduce, distill, melt, pull, cut, polish, and inspect silicon wafers, I found that figure to be quite a bargain. Yousef puts the figure at about 5 times that much. What's your take on the cost of a wafer which is ready for processing by a company such as AMD or Intel? Craig re: " Simple math therefore equates one PII chip with 13 CENTS worth of silicon. ..Paul ... in your opinion, is the author correct?"