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To: SilentZ who wrote (152037)	12/11/2001 10:35:46 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 186894

"I don't think that Jerry wouldn't have beaten Intel's eleventh-hour bid to Microsoft unless it came down to selling below cost." Not necessarily. At the time of that last minute action by Intel, the Duron had not been released. In fact, the first semi-official verification of Duron specifications were via the Microsoft slides on the processor. So even if the price was a little over breakeven, Jerry likely would have dropped out because of the feeling that they could actually sell them for more money. If the market hadn't fallen off a cliff in late 2000, he would have been right, also. In addition, all Intel needs to get is more than packaging and testing costs to make it a win. They should have plenty of die that can't be sold to anyone else. All indications is that they had some serious binsplit issues with the PIII and XBox was their only outlet for those chips...