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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (111730)	5/21/2000 3:40:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571983

Re: "most techies still think the BX is the best chipset ever, and it's headed for the scrapheap. Were all those roadmaps produced in stone in Intel's Mt. Sinai etching facility?" I am in basic agreement. A 133MHz version could have and should have been done long ago. A process shrink and a PLL tweak and they would have been there. Intel is still manufacturing the 440BX in very high volume and it eats up a lot of fab capacity. It's on a .35u process and they have to keep that running to support it in more than 1 fab. It is also the highest volume logic device ever manufactured on a single stepping if my hunch is correct. Of course others believe that Intel has converted all their capacity to .18u and yield problems are the cause of the capacity constraints... EP