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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (44389)	6/15/2000 4:32:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

Jim, <What makes you think Intel can sell a Timna cheaper than a Coppermine? Timnas die will be much larger. Sure the chipset cost will make a difference but history tells us that it's hard to even give away slow Mhz chips...> Two questions. One, how do you know that Timna's die size will be "much larger"? I have heard reports saying that the guys in Israel did a good job keeping the die size small (relative to what it could have been, whatever that means). And two, how do you know whether Intel is purposely keeping the clock speed of Timna slow? <If you had a choice for a 700 Mhz X-box for $300 or a 500 Mhz Timna for $400 which one do you think will sell?...> People who already own Playstation 2 and a library of games to go with it will probably choose Timna for conventional desktop web-surfing. Despite the threats that game consoles pose to low-end PCs, we're still talking about two different markets here. In my opinion, Via and maybe Transmeta pose bigger threats to Timna than Sony or Microsoft. Tenchusatsu