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To: Saturn V who wrote (85906)	1/7/2000 6:31:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

>>socket version of the Celeron I really am not paying attention. I forgot all about the socketed Celeron. Do you know what the mix is between socketed and carded Celeron these days? $7 sounds like a very reasonable number for the PGA Celeron package. I'm guessing that AMD's package is ~50% higher or $10. I believe the cache chips are considerably more expensive than the $10 you imply, but then again, Intel is manufacturing them.

To: Saturn V who wrote (85906)	1/8/2000 12:51:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

Saturn5, <the numbers I quoted were for a Celeron without a card module i.e the socket version of the Celeron.> To be accurate, the package for "card" Celeron is not the same as for the socketed Celeron. The socketed Celeron has PINS. Many PINS. I would hazard to guess that the cost of a socketed package is mostly determined by the cost of precisely micromachined and golden-plated pins, and not by the substrate (plastic or ceramics) they are embedded in. BTW, K6 has less pins than the Celeron.