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To: Xpiderman who wrote (48000)	2/17/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: derek cao	Respond to of 186894

Xy Zhao, thanks for the link! At the first glance, I have some second thoughts. IMHO, the success of intel comes from mobility of its' CPUs. The same CPU which had been used in server one years ago will be available to entry-level PC today. The cost of development has been spread across time and product lines which is the luxury enjoyed by no one but Intel. The idea to develop different CPUs for different segments just did not make any sense. It will create a marketing and support mess. Please do not get me wrong. I am all for marketing different CPUs to different segments. But to pin a CPU design permanently to a specific segments will not make economic sense. I am really like to buy Merced class server for my home for $3,000 dollar instead of $30,000 in the future. The idea of enough computing power is just obscured. IMHO, What intel should work on is the scalablity of its CPU, so we can buy any numbers of CPUs depending on our need and depth of our wallet. derek