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To: porn_start878 who wrote (33964)	3/28/2001 2:22:33 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Max, RE:"X-box" 1. X-box needs a cool chip. Passive cooling. .13u will run cooler. OTOH, I've been told .18u 733 runs pretty cool with just a heat sink. 2. Intel sold out to Microsoft to get the contract. Maybe less than $30 a chip. .13u is cheaper to make. Intel may have figured that into their price. 3. A waste? sure it is but Intel wanted the X-box. Jim

To: porn_start878 who wrote (33964)	3/28/2001 2:46:51 PM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"That would be very stoopid to waste .13u capacity for 733MHz chips. Are-you sure of that?" Perhaps it would not be wasted capacity. If the difference between the XBox processor and Tualatin is just a packaging option, XBox processors could be salvaged Tualatin processors. Tualatin will not be available at less than 1.133 GHz, but it could well be that over 50% of the viable chips will not qualify at 1.133 GHz. These processors could be packaged as XBox processors.