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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27563)	1/3/1998 2:38:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570331

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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27563)	1/3/1998 9:12:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1570331

Jim - Re: " You estimated the cost of a Pentium II at $70...Businessweek says $103." My estimate is an upper limit. Do the math - 203 sq. mm on 8 inch wafers with 31415 sq. mm. Take 85% waste on the wafer - and 60% (3 sigma low end yield) and you should 79 functional die/wafer. At $2000/wafer (again a high end estimate), the die cost should be about $25.33. Add in the costs of the little PC board, the controller/tag ram, packaging and 4 SRAM chips and testing and you should be below $70. Paul