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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: survivin who wrote (110246)	5/10/2000 5:55:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583307

Why do you feel its exaggerated? Labor, materials (rambus?), transportation, etc. Who eats the cost of rambus? Will they use the dreaded via for those who refuse the rambus switch or make them wait for the 815? Hundreds of millions sounds about right. As for the reputation damage, well ... priceless. survivin, I question how many people will actually return their MB; some may not even know they're defective. Secondly I was estimating a cost for the MB of $150 per board. Based on Goutama's comments, that may be low. However my real point was that I think the major cost will be to Intel's rep...and not its bottom line. ted