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To: Windsock who wrote (138820)	7/8/2001 12:44:45 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Intel values its product in inventory at cost of goods or market value, whatever is lower Of course they do, just as to all other companies. But do you actually think that they didn't get caught in collapse of prices that has affected the rest of tech? The cost of WIP (work in progress) bare die is certainly lower than market, but how about all the "other" stuff intel would have been carrying as part of the $2.8 Billion? Like networking equipment? What were NT's inventory writedowns last quarter when they lost $19 Billion. You think the value of WIP and parts in stock went up? I'm pretty sure the value of AMD's inventories went down, at least a little, in the period. I'd guess the same thing happened to Intel, but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. Dan PS - what do you think of this link that Bilow posted on the Rambus thread: manufacturing.net US-based Intel, the world's largest manufacturer of microprocessors for computers, plans to launch 845 chipset for double data rate (DDR) at Comdex Fall, the world's largest computer show in US. The launch is earlier than the company's original schedule of putting forward the product in the first quarter of 2002. Intel is to start mass production of 845 chipset at the end of 2001. The move is to form an impact on Taiwan-based microprocessor manufacturers, including VIA Technologies Inc, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp and Acer Laboratories Inc. Is the fat lady about to start singing for Rambus? The benchmarks for Brookdale with SDRAM were pretty pathetic, but early chipset drivers don't always give an accurate indication of production performance.