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To: Maxwell who wrote (37265)	9/21/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572025

Re: "Looks like Intel is selling the CeleronA-333 to GTW for less than $100 for the Celeron 333. The funny thing is that GTW wanted so much CeleronA that Intel had to convert the entire line to CeleronA. As a results there is shortage of Xeon. I guess Intel will report BIG ASP on their CPU this quarter. Their strategy is BRILLIANT!" I suspect Intel has several fabs running the CeleronA and every one they sell is a sale taken away from AMD. Even at $100 they would be making good money, although not as good as a PII, it's better than letting a sale get away to AMD. The shortage of Xeon has nothing to do with Celeron, in my view, as I suspect every Xeon comes from the same batch of processors as the PII does. If the backside bus will run at fullspeed, it's binned out as a Xeon and later attached to the Slot2 card. If the BSB won't run at full speed, it's binned out as a PII and attached to a Slot1 card. Pretty simple. EP