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To: Dan3 who wrote (116211)	6/18/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572208

Re: "They save $10 on plastic packaging, then have to throw half the chips into the dumpster because they fail in testing, doubling production costs" Compare this to the 100,000s of defective Athlons AMD has to scrap every month and it doesn't look so bad. EP

To: Dan3 who wrote (116211)	6/18/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

AlibiDan - Re:" How many of Intel's cheap chips fail for every one they are able to ship? What's that do to the average cost of production?" My guess is Intel's back-end yields are close to 95-98% - that is why they have a 60+% gross margin - in case you're wondering ! re: "Timna will save the $15 production cost of a .25 chipset by doubling the $25 production cost and size of a .18 CPU." Nope. Somehow, Intel's designers managed to get the Timna die size to be about the same as Coppermine - the smaller cache left room for the graphics and CHip Set functions. Re: "Remember when GM completely dominated the market, the antitrust division was investigating it, and it seemed inconceivable that that could ever change? Do you think GM will ever again get its market share above 30%?" Sorry - I don't follow GM - you sound like a disenchanted GM investor !!!! Paul