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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42949)	12/8/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

McMannis - Re: "hat you will sell AMD at the peak prior to the launch of the K7 at or near the peak? " Yes. Re: "That AMD won't be able to deliver the K7 at a profit for 18 months?" Yes. Re: "Even at 184mm2 the K7 will have a silicon cost 40-60 bucks conservatively...depending on yields of say 50%." The K7 will have a cost of $120 to $150 if the yields are 25% - including packaging expenses. Paul

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42949)	12/8/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572942

<Even at 184mm2 the K7 will have a silicon cost 40-60 bucks conservatively...depending on yields of say 50%.> Funny how Paul didn't reply to this with a "Hint Hint, Winky Winky!" Microprocessor Report seems to believe that the K7 will cost $104 to make, compared to $47 for the current K6-2. This is die costs alone; the L2 cache and Nintendo cartridge will cost extra, like the Pentium II. Also, those 22 million transistors aren't going to make things easy in terms of yield. (The oversized L1 cache will probably be only 5.5 to 7.5 million transistors.) Tenchusatsu