Paul, re:"WAS the Camino Chip Set being used."
Not too surprising. In fact I'd bet that Camino silicon is the only system silicon that can run RD ram today! Intel has had an RD interface running on a test chip for over six months, but that chip can run a system. There is no reason to believe that there exist any other RD chipset interface on the planet.
I am also awed by Intel's performance on schedule:
The thing we want to make clear today is that we've hit all of the milestones that we discussed [two years ago]," said Peter MacWilliams, an Intel fellow and the company's director of platform architecture, in an interview at Comdex/Fall '98 last week. "We said we'd have a working PC platform by the end of 1998, and we have that today.
RD ram program has entailed brand new and very, very complex with high electrical engineering for the chipset, ram chips, sockets, connectors, voltage supplies and PCBs. Intel has orchestrated this massive program across several of its own divisions, all major ram suppliers, and of course Rambus Inc. You can bet that several were less than anxious to play at the Intel accelerated schedule rate. It is phenomenal that this demonstration is possible of all parts working on a schedule announced two years ago.
Jeff |
