Don't know how far this is true but Hardware.fr says it caught hold of Intel's raodmap being given out to OEMs. Here is a clip from JCs (I recommend people check out the original source at hardware-fr.com
Personally I think this is a little pessimistic and does not account for CuMine+ speed enhancements that apparently being worked on to get CuMine to 1GHz. But, if it is not, and Intel is not sandbagging their roadmap, Intel will be in a whole world of hurt and it will be a HUGE bonus for AMD longs.
If Intel is really showing this roadmap to OEEMs. I would be surprised if everyone including Dell will not be on board with Athlon in Q1.
P.S.: Some in the next 24-48 hours, I am expecting to see some AMD/Gateway articles hit the presses - I am way out of limb to say this but I have reasons to believe this is happening.
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99/11/23, 1:32pm - Stop the presses, this is a doozy! :)
I don't usually devote an entire entry to one story, but this is pretty powerful and I want to get it mentioned as soon as possible. Take a look over here, it's an overview of the latest guidance going to OEMs from Intel's cpu boys. Lemme give you a summary:
Slot-1 will be completely dead by next April
PIII-800 will come out in March (with pricing in late Feb, maybe announcement then?)
PIII-866 will appear at the end of 2000 Q2
PIII-933 will appear at the end of 2000 Q3
Celeron will hit 533 and 566 in Q1, 600 in Q2, and 633 in Q4.
Willamette will likely ome out at the beginning of 2000 Q4, accompanied by the new, incompatible (to GTL+) Tehama platform. Intel says that it "will be a true revolution in terms of performance" (that quote was put through an ugly autotranslator, and I paraphrased it on top of that).
PIII-750 will be out in January, at $745
PIII-800 will debut at $775
PIII-866 will also debut at $775
At the time of each part's release, the Celeron 533, 566, and 600 will be $170
The writer of this article thinks it is a great thing for consumers, price-wise, that the PIII-866 will debut at about the same time that the Athlon-1000 is released.
I do have a partial take on this: Intel originally claimed 600MHz in 1999 Q4, with maybe 666MHz for low volume Xeons. And while they're stretching the definition of availability a bit, they're at 733MHz now. I think that Intel will be able to push ahead their schedule and at least announce a 1GHz part by early August. I'm going to give Intel the benefit of the doubt and assume that they can just barely squeak to that frequency with the help of voltage hikes, extra tweaks, and lots of TLC. But I don't think they'll be able to get meaningful volumes at that speed grade unless they are able to deliver on that new microarchitecture they've been promising for the past few years!
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