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To: Dan3 who wrote (80548)	11/20/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 1571970

Dan, <Rambus will keep the low end Intc offerings expensive, despite some savings from PoC, the i740/i752 video engine will keep its performance uncompetitive> There's two sides to the issue: cost and performance. On the cost side, the price per MB of RDRAM may indeed be rather high by the time Timna is released. But remember that Intel could always resort to the MRH-S component (which MPR estimates to be only $5) and put SDRAM on Timna in the near-term. On the performance side, I really don't think you know what you're talking about here. First of all, the P6 core has proven to be much more scalable in performance than the K6-x core as the clock speed is increased. Second, the graphics core is no Voodoo4, but it will run at the same speed as the processor, i.e. much faster than the cores of AGP graphics controllers. So you can bet that Timna's graphics will be stronger than the 810. Third, you have to factor in the reduced latency of an integrated memory controller. In any case, I think Intel is much more concerned about cost than performance w.r.t. Timna. But I still think Timna will blow away any K6-x system, both in performance and in price/performance. Tenchusatsu

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