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To: Petz who wrote (82493)	12/9/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573088

Re: "One of the two is true -- either Intel is building an inventory of 128K Coppermines, or something is wrong with the 128K Coppermines which will require (most likely) a mask revision." Not necessarily. First off, I don't believe that Intel will use the same die for the CeleronIII as they do for the CuMine because Intel won't get enough failures at 256K to meet CeleronIII demand and it would be a huge waste of silicon real estate to dumb down CuMines just to have CeleronIIIs to sell. Intel will have a smaller die for the CeleronIIIs just like back in the old 486DX/SX days. Secondly, I don't think Intel has enough fab capacity converted over yet to .18u to support both products. That's why the CeleronIII hasn't shown up yet. EP