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Re: I strongly doubt that Intel has stopped wafer starts of single core Netburst dies. What makes you think so?

Now don't go changing the topic, Joe. We were talking about speed bins that have already fallen below the threshold of what is sellable in the market place. However, there are plenty of "single core Netburst dies" that are sellable in the low end segments, and for these, Intel absolutely ought to keep on manufacturing them, at least until a Core 2 Solo has had time to ramp.

Re: for purposes of a bin like this, 90nm vs. 65nm is irrelevant

I agree in terms of performance, but the other issue is cost, and 65nm will be smaller in die size and therefore less expensive to manufacture. There will also be the matter of capacity transfer. As 90nm chipsets and other components ramp up in production, 90nm CPUs ought to ramp down.