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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (123453)	9/1/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570724

Doug, to repeat again, pins just can't be that expensive, the pin count on most northbridge chips floats up around 500. I'd guess maybe $.01 a pin, not $.10 or $.05. You might also check out my favorite prove of principle, tomshardware.com , describing a 693-pin dual-sdram channel "budget" northbridge: Despite its turbocharged memory interface, the Aladdin 7 is intended for very inexpensive systems. ABIT suggested a console device outfitted with an Aladdin 7 based motherboard and a DVD drive could retail under $300 U.S. Since the Aladdin 7 supports DVD decoding through hardware acceleration motion compensation, the system could serve as a DVD player/game machine. I doubt very much that there's $35 worth of pins in that northbridge, much less $70. Cheers, Dan.