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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (48196)	2/3/1999 6:05:00 AM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573430

Tom : 7.5 is less than 19 and more than 14? I guess not! Quote from tom pabst about an intel comment on his article about dixon... Very comical indeed. "The next thing was Intel's argumentation against my article about their new mobile Pentium II CPUs. I said in this article that Intel is keeping the latest technology of 256 kB on-die L2-cache deliberately from the desktop market, because they can make enough money with the older technology using external L2-cache. Intel told me that after all the die of the new mobile Pentium II processor (code name 'Dixon') represents 19 million transistors, which makes it much more expensive to produce than a normal Pentium II core (7.5 million transistors) plus the external(and pretty cheap) L2-cache modules supplied from RAM makers. Intel claims that Dixon for the desktop would be much too expensive. What they forgot however is that Celeron with its die hosting around 14 million transistors ,due to its 128 kB on-die L2-cache, is for some strange reason selling at half the price of a Pentium II. I would be seriously surprised if a Celeron wasn't at least as expensive to produce as a complete Pentium II, the Pentium II might even be cheaper. " morale ? Intel keeps screwing around...go intel.