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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (30737)	5/31/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Skeeter, Jack - Re ASP's I was one of the ones who expressed surprise when Katherine D. brought this up last year, but she posted the relevant data and indeed it was so. However, it would be hard to find again. FWIW. Clark

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (30737)	6/1/1999 8:44:00 AM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

As I have said repeatedly: If a chip with 4X as many transistors sells for 2X the price, then the cost per transistor (and therefore the price of computing power) has gone down (Moore's law), but the average selling price has gone up. Historical data (posted last year, unfortunately not accessible to me at the moment) shows that chip ASPs tend to go upward, and that when they dip downward, the industry stops building fabs. Katherine