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"Despite the lower price, the chip likely costs about the same to manufacture as the version with the larger cache because it is about the same size, analysts said. AMD declined to comment on the manufacturing cost."

Obviously cost of manufacturing has little or nothing to do with pricing. It's all about selling a marketing plan to the consumer.
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gotta love it...  JoeMama_z | 12/18/03
I wonder about some of you...  el-heffa | 12/18/03
Ever delt with them en masse?  JoeMama_z | 12/18/03
Hmmmm  quietLee | 12/19/03
Have to agree  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/19/03
AMD Should Push Win Media Center and DVR PC Apps  P. Douglas | 12/18/03
Marketing, you gotta love it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/18/03
actually...  ryusen | 12/18/03
Intel did the same  NemesisNL | 12/19/03
Celerons?  ykpauha@... | 12/19/03
Go Further Back  Whyaylooh | 12/19/03
celeron was a deliberate design  ryusen | 12/19/03
You should know all about Marketing.  nucrash | 12/18/03
But, the chips were originally rejected  nucrash | 12/19/03
Zero Problems with Asus + AMD  zeusfuse | 12/19/03
I agree  JoeMama_z | 12/19/03
AMD nice try but could do better with budget 64.  rexoverbey | 12/21/03

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