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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (84336)12/29/1999 10:17:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (3) of 1572444
 
Elmer, It may well be that the chip is ready now, but there is no chipset? Perhaps it is disabled due to a contractual reason in the license from Alpha?(CPQ). The Alphians maye have licensed the bus but just for single CPU useage? Beats me why they do not do it. I know they speak of doing it in first half of 2000 with oem beta samples in first quarter. I am sure it is a combination of chip set, mobo and CPU and you cannot just take a SMP Alpha Mobo with a changed bios and
'make it go'
On the face of the CPU has the control lines and it should be capable of SMP. So it is most likely entirely a mobo/chipset reason and not likely to be a licence limitation from CPQ.
We know the early celerons were capable of SMP and that Intel disabledIfixed) that feature(flaw). More proof that the heart of a rat is embodied in the soul of Intel.

Bill
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