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To: Paul Engel who wrote (33862)	7/2/1998 1:41:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572911

RE:"Thanks for the reassurance!" Paul, Glad to help. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (33862)	7/2/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572911

Paul, to re-open a discussion on Slot1 cartridge costs, Erika Klauer of BT Alex. Brown, in a 6/26/98 report claimed that the additional costs are $19 for the Celeron. Not only is the actual microprocessor more expensive than those offered by AMD and Cyrix by 30-40%, but Slot 1 also requires an additional connector at a cost of about $2.00, an extra daughtercard at a cost of about $17 and a different motherboard to accommodates the slot 1 cartridge. She then explains that this is why the Celeron will soon be available in a Socket-7-like plastic pin-grid-array (PPGA) package. While $19 may not sound like much, if Intel's wafer cost is truly $1500 as you claim and Intel really gets 180 good CPU's out of 200 possible per wafer, the cartridge for a Celeron costs twice as much as the silicon. Thank your buddy Albert for the brokerage report. Petz