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To: Scumbria who wrote (57422)	5/6/1999 11:49:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1572777

Re: "Have you ever used a wide datapath? It costs a lot less than $1000 per chip." True but you would need to develop a seperate product with a lot of extra pins just for a relatively low volume product. You would need to invest in additional high pincount manufacturing equipment just to support the Xeon. Not smart. Intel operates off a single base die and differentiates when the part is packaged. Celeron excepted. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (57422)	5/6/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: Richard Wang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

AMD just put Cyrix out of business. Whom are they going to put out of business next!!!? <G> Richard

To: Scumbria who wrote (57422)	5/7/1999 12:53:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

SCUMbria - Re: "Have you ever used a wide datapath? It costs a lot less than $1000 per chip." Intel makes just such a chip - an 18 Megabit high speed SRAM - with a 72 bit data bus - 64 bits data + 8 bits for ECC/Parity. It runs at full 550 MHz processor speeds - and even higher ! When the K7 benchmarks come out, and you realize how crippled the K7 is because of AMD's inability to provide anything higher than 1/2 or 1/3 CPU speed SRAM, then you'll know why Intel charges - AND GETS - a premium for their in-house high speed SRAMs. Paul