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To: combjelly who wrote (62855)	11/8/2001 11:17:38 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Combjelly, Re: "Weren't we talking about the cost of an Itanium CPU?" Sigh. Yes we were, or at least I was. You, however, have a touching faith that Intel can produce anything for basically the cost of sand. Even for a low volume product like Itanium. What can I say? I know darned well that there is more involved than the cost of the silicon itself. With the added cost of the larger die, Itanium is already higher cost, but like we've also argued, there is higher costs involved with the SRAM caches and the elegant packaging. On the other hand, you seem to think that the cost of production varies inversely with the volume of products that you produce. This is true only when the process you are using is only used on that low volume design. When you use a high volume process on a low volume design, other than the costs of the masks, etc that are unique to that design, there are no other obvious added costs in manufacturing that I can think of. If you are so informed on the subject, maybe you can give me an example. wanna_bmw