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To: kpf who wrote (148548)	1/20/2005 8:31:14 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

dies (!) for Smithfield are mezzanine yields from Intels 2BM-process. Can you explain this in further detail? (Did you mean 2MB, also?) AFAIR, Smithfield = 2 x 1MB Prescott, with the two Prescott dies adjacent on the wafer, with a little bit of connection between the two. And if one part is bad, it may be salvaged as a 5xx (not 6xx) single core Prescott. Are you simply saying that Smithfield should yield strictly worse than low-speed (2.8, 3.0, 3.2) 6xx parts, having the same amount of L2, but needing an extra core to function? I agree, if so.