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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (50373)	2/22/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1583334

Pravin, >Re: How much would it cost an OEM to add 512KB or 1MB L3 cache to an >existing Super 7 mobile motherboard versus not adding it? $10? It >seems worth the price in the $2000 notebook market segment. I think the issue is power consumption rather than cost. I guess OEMS can offer ultra high performance options with up to 2Mb of L3 cache as well as cacheless options. It may also offer an OEM a way of segmenting different price points. However as the K-3 will be plenty fast enough versus the competition that OEMs will go for lowest power/cost combination. Regards, Kash

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (50373)	2/22/1999 2:44:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583334

<How much would it cost an OEM to add 512KB or 1MB L3 cache to an existing Super 7 mobile motherboard versus not adding it? $10?> How much is 100 MHz SRAM cache these days? It can't be $10 per megabyte, could it? Yeah, I know, Pricewatch has all these motherboards with 1 MB SRAM cache for under $100, but I couldn't find any motherboard on Pricewatch with a 2 MB SRAM cache for comparison. Tenchusatsu