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To: heatsinker2 who wrote (80149)	5/16/2002 10:21:15 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

heatsinker2, CYH = Cover your head, hmm, what does CYA mean? The other end? Well, if a part will take a heat soak of 85C and it makes it's way into a car where it get to 125C...hmmm, will it work? or fail. Engineers will select the higher temp part, all other things being equal. In some apps the higher temp part is de rigeur. AMD will have those areas to itself, will the price be higher? Bill

To: heatsinker2 who wrote (80149)	5/16/2002 10:43:31 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Overall, it looks like the capabilities of the two products are fairly similar, so we end up with price as being a key factor. " Yeah. MirrorBit is aimed at the lowest cost per bit market. AMD's other flash is for the market where more performance is needed. With STM and Intel uses multi-level charge memory, and AMD using their MirrorBit, it will be interesting to see how the market shakes out.

To: heatsinker2 who wrote (80149)	5/16/2002 10:44:16 AM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 275872

Heatsinker2 Re..Overall, it looks like the capabilities of the two products are fairly similar, so we end up with price as being a key factor. <<<<<< AFAIK AMD's current price is 25% cheaper, so a higher max temp. could easily be the reason stated for a change, when price really is the major reason. When you are paying 25% more for a product, you start looking for reasons to justify a change or stay where you are.