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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (115372)6/12/2000 6:42:00 PM
From: EricRR  Read Replies (1) of 1571798
 
Great find! I think we can deduce a couple of things from these roadmaps, assuming they don't get changed.

1) As others have said, Dr. Tom was right, Almador is a non-Rambus chipset for a new (0.13?) coppermine.

2) Since Willy changes its number of pins, I can only think that an integrated memory controller is to blame. Since Northwood and Willy with more pins both use the same Tulloch chipset, they (MTH forbid) will use the same memory type. Thus, either they both use Rambus, or Intel, with this raodmap, has killed Rambus. Given that Intel wouldn't (couldn't) keep this kind of secret from their Wall Street buddies, and that Rambus has not plummeted, Tulloch must be a Rambus chipset.

If Intel does have secret plans to drop Rambus for Willy, we haven't heard the code names yet. I doubt it would be to hard to hide such intent in Foster chipset development.

PS- notice that these roadmaps must be close to current, since Timna is shown as Q1 2001.
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