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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (72737)9/22/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1574368
 
Chuck, <It isn't obvious to me that 133 FSB would be necessary to accomplish a smooth ramp down of 0.25.>

OK, I see what you are saying. The only purpose for Katmai 533B and 600B (the 'B' suffix stands for 133 MHz FSB) is to allow the 820 Camino chipset to be released earlier than Coppermine. But the time difference is only one month, which isn't much of a window.

Maybe Intel wasn't confident that the Coppermine ramp-up could match the Camino ramp-up (Rambus difficulties aside), which is why they thought Katmai would be necessary to fill in the gap. As usual, the realities don't become apparent until very late, and that creates really unusual situations like the one we'll face when Intel releases its hodge-podge of CPUs and chipsets in the near future.

Tenchusatsu
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