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To: Fortinwit who wrote (26825)	12/2/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

F, >>>Smart move on Intel's part... 400/450s have better margins no?<<< Sure, but PII-333, 350, 400 and 450 are all one and the same chip design. They're just speed-binned and then marked differently. In fact, Intel is so far up the yield curve now on PII, both functionally and at speed, that essentially all new PIIs probably run reliably at 450 MHz. This statement says the distributor in question would sell more if he had chips marked at 333, 350 (remark the "faster" ones to 333 or 350?): Datrontech, he said, was trying to move its customers to the 400MHz and the 450MHz parts, but the difference in price between the 350MHz and the 450MHz PII is around £100. ® Tony