Daniel,
Welcome to the thread. Since EP's stirring it up, here's a little story that might strike a nerve with the Intellabees (credit to Amdzone):
ebns.com
AMD claims it will ship gigahertz Athlon only when ready in volume
By Mark Hachman
Electronic Buyers' News
(02/17/00, 10:02:04 AM EDT)
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., declining to play the gigahertz marketing game, has declared it will ship gigahertz Athlon processors only when it can do so in volume.
At Intel Corp.'s Developer Forum (IDF) in Palm Springs, Calif., on Tuesday, Intel disclosed that "limited production quantities" of gigahertz Pentium IIIs were shipping to three OEMs: Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM. The company also demonstrated a 1.4-GHz next-generation Willamette processor.
A spokesman for Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel further clarified the company's position on the new products, saying that the chip maker had not officially announced their release, and thus had not disclosed a price for them. "We'll do a launch shortly," when Intel will announce a price, he said, adding that Intel and PC OEMs will ship a limited volume skew in the first half of the year, with volume production beginning in the third quarter.
At a hotel near the IDF, AMD representatives showed the gigahertz Athlon and reviewed the company's roadmap. They offered no new updates, and refused to commit to a timetable to ship the speedy microprocessors.
"We intend to announce a product only when we are prepared to ship it," said Mark Bode, division marketing manager for AMD's Athlon product marketing, Austin, Texas.
AMD recently announced an 850-MHz Athlon, the fastest PC microprocessor available in full production volumes. A 900-MHz Athlon is expected during the second quarter, followed shortly thereafter by Thunderbird and Spitfire, AMD's first Athlons to integrate Level-2 cache on the die. Bode added that AMD is concocting a brand name for AMD's forthcomoing low-end chips, the K6-2+ and Spitfire, similar to the Celeron brand name used by Intel.
-Scot |
