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To: Tony Viola who wrote (77746)	10/29/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1572147

Tony, Well it would (IMHO) opinion be a good way for Intel to get out of the nasty entry and midlevel CPU market. It would help slow product price drops, etc. A lot of people seem confused by Intel recent lack of perfect execution, but I maintain it's a result of trying to do too many things at once. There are 2 lines of thinking on this of course, do many things at an acceptable level, or do a few things at a very high-level. With Intel's 'new' focus on the internet, etc., (holy dejavu typing this), it's just one more area that they are spreading themselves over. Of course there is the arguement that diversification is a good thing, and I cannot argue with that arguement. However, there is also such a thing as spreading one's self too thin. Steve

To: Tony Viola who wrote (77746)	10/29/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572147

Re: "Never happen. IMO. Corollary might be will Toyota ever give up "entry level" cars, even with Camry, 4runner, etc. selling extremely well? I don't think Toyota, or Intel will give up the low end, as long as their markets stay anything like today. 25 years from now, who knows?" I agree. Another reason is with process technology changing so fast, big companies like Intel need secondary product lines to utilize the 2nd & 3rd generation removed technology. Like their chipsets for example are probably just now starting to utilize the .25u process as the top of the line products move off of that and onto .18u. Other less glamorous products are probably still using the .35u process, what capacity still remains. I think the 440BX is .35u and it is still a very big runner. Someone told me it is the highest volume logic design ever, excluding some old 8 bit microcontrollers keyboard controllers etc. EP