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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (38307)	10/6/1998 12:57:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1574491

Kevin - Re: "the chip that Adrian bought was a remarked Xeon core that couldn't cut the mustard." You are showing your lack of knowledge that emotionally blinds you to the facts. Intel packages the Deschutes chip into a BGA package prior to mounting the BGA package into a Slot 1 Pentium II or Slot 2 Xeon or Celeron cartridge. The BGA-packaged chips are not designated for specific Xeons or Pentium IIs or Celerons until AFTER they are functional and speed tested in BGA packaged form. Only after this are the packaged chips "binned" for Celeron or Pentium II or Xeon packages. Face it, Kevin - you're all bent out of shape because Adrian's purchase confirms the wide speed margins available in Intel's process. Re: "why would they need a second variant/iteration of their .25u process to hit 450 (according to Yousef)?" This variant runs at lower power for 450 MHz operation as well as LOWER VOLTAGE - 1.6 volts - for Mobile operation at 300 MHz. I would suspect that Intel may have more than two variants to this 0.25 micron process - perhaps 3 or 4 - some with only 4 layers of metal for Pentium MMX production. By the way - Intel will be improving yields and cost and performance as they transition from a BGA package to an Organic Land Grid Array package (OLGA). Paul