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

To: Rob Young who wrote (56819)	4/30/1999 1:11:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577019

<The shrink of EV6 to EV68 (.18 micron) is the killer "$400" part.> $400 is the selling price or $400 is the manufacturing cost? God, I hope that isn't the manufacturing cost! In any case, I wouldn't doubt that the EV68 will be cheaper to make than Merced. The selling price, however, isn't going to depend on the cost anyway (well, not that much). Intel will be selling Merceds at very high prices anyway, and Compaq can be selling the EV68 at high prices, too. It wouldn't be wise for Compaq to pull an AMD and low-ball the price of the EV68, unless they plan on making the Alpha 21264 a high volume desktop solution. In other words, even if Compaq sells the EV68 at 1/5th the price, Intel won't have much of a reason to drop the price of the low-volume Merced. It's just the different market dynamics of the high-end. Tenchusatsu