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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Duncan Baird who wrote ()6/6/2000 10:30:00 AM
From: EricRR  Read Replies (2) of 1573189
 
Has this been posted? The Register is reporting that the MTH is dead- for good. They also imply that Timna's delay is a core redesign, so that the chip is being made to work with Sdram. If this is a Timna core redesign, are we really going to see it in Q1 2001? And if they are designing it to run with Sdram, won't it be obsolete by ~Q4 2001 when the world (+ dog!) switches over to DDR?

Intel planned 3 big launches in 2000:
Tic - Merced
Tac - Timna
Toe - ??????????

theregister.co.uk

ntel gives up on SDRAM version of Caminogate

As we reported earlier today, MTH flaw forces Intel Timna delay Intel has moved the
entry level Timna system on a chip out to Q1 2001 due to an inability to make the
accursed memory translator hub (MTH) work properly.

Chipzilla is now working on a new memory interface ? wisely dropping the MTH
nomenclature ? enabling Timna to support SDRAM. An Intel Europe spokesman
refused to be drawn on the memory specification, saying only that Timna would work
with 'widely available' SDRAM technology, which could mean either PC100 or PC133
? our money's on the latter.

The spokesman also confirmed that Intel has now thrown in the towel in the battle to
get SDRAM to work with the i820 Camino chipset. Until today, the plan was to
develop a new MTH part with reduced susceptibility to noise for delivery in Q3, but
now the message is 'Rambus or bust' as far as the 820 is concerned. ©
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