Jim, Re: "I don't know about aggressive but Intel is Scramblin', announcing chips "before their time".
Oh? Get your HP Pavilion 8500 series PC, with an Intel Pentium III 800Mhz processor for less than 2,000 bucks.
However: The latest HP
Vectra corporate desktop PCs, HP Kayak PC Workstations and HP NetServer systems will support the new
Pentium III 800Mhz processor in a variety of configurations and are expected to be available in the first
calendar quarter of 2000.
Yes, that disclaimer is in the ad. PCs are now being announced before their actual general availability, which has been the case for larger computers, up to and including mainframes, for years. Makes it OK, I guess.
biz.yahoo.com
Re: "...if Intel can pull off a good quarter without some fancy accounting practitices or sales of LNUX or RHAT etc. it
will either be a wonder or be because demand for all chips has gone crazy."
I think the latter is happening. Intel's plans for the multiple plants expansion that came out last week (Oregon, Massachusetts, etc.) makes it look like they're capacity constrained big time. Massachusetts? Andy Bryant must have to sign off on that one. Actually, I'm sure he does on all significant plant upgrades.
What do you think of Intel's performance lead increasing over AMD? No L2 on die is really beginning to make a difference. Oh, I remember, Megahertz sells, right?
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