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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27172)	6/7/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 33344

Jim, Well with the PII, all the manufacturing costs aren't competely under Intel's control anymore. Now Intel realies on others, which means Intel can't improve efficiency on those $25 cache bits. They will be $25 cache bits. While $25 won't break the bank, it used to be that Intel would intro a part and at Intro it would cost (fake numbers here) $100 to make. By the time it was nearing maintstream acceptance it was $65 and the end of it's life it was a mere $35. That "luxury" is now gone. In addition, but putting the cache with the CPU it's more testing that has to be done.. all in all it starts to add up and Intel starts approaching a minimum $100 cost on their PII products.. Steve