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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (34453)	7/14/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1574679

Joey Smith, Jim McM really clarified what an expensive chip the Mendocino will be to produce. 160-165 mm die size (twice size of K6-2) cartridge costs $17-$18 above Socket 7 Of course, Intel already announced that they'll drop the Slot 1 Mendocino in a few months, retool the factory and switch to Socket 421 PGA packaging. Intel unit sales actually dropped in the last quarter, yet they are splitting their production over all of the following products: MMX200, 233's still being harvested (no new wafer starts) Pentium PRO 200 Pentium II 233,266 still being harvested Pentium II 300 Pentium II 333 Pentium II 350 Pentium II 400 Pentium II 450 (halfway through production) Celeron 266 Celeron 300 Mendocino 333 (CeleronII) All three Celeron versions in PGA packaging Xeon 350/512K, 400/512K, 350/1024K, 400/1024K Pentium II 266 in two different mobile packages Tillamook 200,233,266 in two different mobile packages My point is that Intel has tripled the number of products but unit sales are down. They run a risk of producing the wrong quantities and holding some expensive inventory to meet JIT manufacturing. Petz