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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (43302)	12/14/1998 12:08:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573029

Bill , the K6-2 350 lowest price on Pricewatch has increased from $125 to $128 in the last 2 weeks while Celeron 333 has gone down to $90 . It looks to me like another marketing gaff by Intel . When the cacheless celery received such a bad report from the media , Intel should have recognised the need for another name to differentiate the cache version from the cacheless , (acceleron?) These lower prices could mean that OEMs are realising that Celeron is has this perception problem and dumping excess on the grey market . Brian

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (43302)	12/14/1998 12:43:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573029

Bill, <until Intel get a 371? pin based celeron out they will keep the cost penalty of slot one and that makes the low end hard to compete in.> ??? I do not see any cost advantage of S-370 vs. Slot-1 for a system/board maker. They are identical for manufacturing - the only difference is the connector. I would say that the ZIF-370 must be more expensive, plus usual cost of board re-design and getting back to good signal integrity. Therefore, for some-six months the S-370 boards will be more expensive than the Slot-1. Again and again the PC industry must pay a tribute to Intel attempts to escape the competition by changing rules for their internal reasons only.