Barry - Compaq has 1500 Initial Orders for XEON Servers.
If these are split between 2 and 4-CPU servers, at an average of 3, this could be a nice $4,500,000 order for Intel for August, assuming $1000/XEON CPU.
I hope DELL's business is doing as well as Compaq's.
Note - Microsoft received the very first Compaq XEON Server. If their is a "system crash", I wonder who Microsoft will blame - themselves, Compaq or Intel?
Paul
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Compaq and Dell ship Xeon-powered servers
By David Pendery
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 4:18 PM PT, Jul 31, 1998
Compaq Computer and Dell are the first OEMs to break the Xeon logjam with their announcements that they are now shipping Xeon-powered servers.
Dell began shipping its dual-Xeon PowerEdge 6300 earlier this week, while Compaq announced it shipped its first ProLiant 6000, also a dual-processor server, Friday. The company shipped its first ProLiant 6000, code-named Javelin, to Microsoft, said Tim Golden, Compaq director of enterprise server marketing.
While Compaq and Dell may be the first, they will almost certainly be leading a charge. An Intel representative said the company has been shipping "screened processors" to OEMs for over a week.
Although most server manufacturers announced availability of Xeon servers in late June, a problem in the processor chip set was uncovered, delaying shipments. The error was in the circuitry that checks Level 2 cache memory, coordinating CPUs accessing the same data in multiprocessor systems.
Intel corrected that problem by July 17, the Intel representative said, but an additional erratum in the error correcting code on the processor pushed out shipments until the end of July.
Compaq says that it has begun shipping its initial 1,500 orders for the new servers, and will ramp up full production into its channels in three or four weeks.
"We are now confident that the process by Intel has cleared the problem," Golden said. He added that Compaq received its first "clean" Xeon processors from Intel Thursday.
Golden said that Compaq had played a significant role in identifying the error during their testing, as well as in correcting the error during July.
"Our test process is extensive so it's not uncommon that we could uncover bugs like this," Golden said.
Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, is at (281) 370-0670 or compaq.com.
David Pendery is a reporter for InfoWorld.
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