Intel Engineer, <And their SMP Chipset has also been delayed:>
Really? What it says?
Your sources at "geek.com" and other school-kids.com
seem to have some problems with English comprehension.
Your geeks at geek.com
hustled to blurb:
"AMD announced that their multiprocessing chipsets,
the AMD 760 and 770, will not be ready until 2001.",
with reference to another site:
ebnews.com
In fact, Mark Hachman at Ebnews.com wrote:
"AMD plans to deploy the AMD-760 and AMD-770 chipsets in
2001 at a 266-MHz microprocessor bus speed, said Ron Huff,
division marketing manager at the company's Computation
Products Group in Sunnyvale, Calif."
Half-witted and hostile persons like some "geeks" and
yourself would probably read it as everything is delayed.
However, they didn't pay attention to words "at a
266-MHz bus speed", and to the follow-up phrase containing
"chipsets will feature interfaces to PC2100 and PC1600
double-data-rate memory".
First, there is no information that Athlon has ever been
qualified for operations at 133/266 MHz.
Second, if you would be a bit familiar with the DRAM
market situation, you probably could realize that
the DDR-133 is not here quite yet. Therefore it looks
like the 266-MHz chipset readiness is just more realistically aligned with the time when the
industry expects the DDR-133 infrastructure to be
in some production quantities.
BTW, I've read your nice upbeat report about new Intel
fab in Arizona. Very impressive and informative,
especially the long part about grass policy and
watering the premises... Keep up good work ;) |
