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To: Ali Chen who wrote (5719)	4/23/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6843

<BTW, the new contest is coming: Intel is going to make L2 running at 1X core speed. Probably it will cost a lot more than 1/2X SRAM. How stupid on their part again: they will gain even less than with 100MHz front bus. Much less. He-he.> This is only for highend systems Ali. The PPro with 1meg L2 sold well for a very high premium The Xeon will as well. It's not intended for the desktop, but for multiprocessor servers and highend workstations. It is well worth the premium in those applications. The competition there is Sun and Alpha. Those are not low cost systems. < I also explicitly "alluded" that the cost of silicon area is still the cost no matter what is imprinted on it. > Not necessarily so. Processors don't have redundency (except possibly for the L1 cache), so a defect that would kill a processor might be repairable on a SRAM. Of course if the rumors about Intel's yields are true, there aren't many bad die to recover. EP