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To: wbmw who wrote (241476)	10/1/2007 2:13:47 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

There is no evidence whatsoever that microprocessor prices have dropped any more rapidly than a host of other chip products over the past 5 years. D/A convertors, FPGA's, memory prices, tuner chips, voltage regulators and a zillion other chips have dropped just as much. For example, from a 3-year-old ComputorEdge computoredge.com I found the following prices 128MB "USB 2.0 pen drive" $19.50 17" widescreen LCD $289 Now a 1G pen drive (8x as large) costs the same. A 19" widescreen costs half of what 17" cost 3 years ago. A 1.8 GHz single core chip was $100 3 years ago. Now you get two cores for the same price. Big whoopee! LCD's, memory and hard drive capacities have improved a lot more than 2:1 in bang for the buck. Petz