Elmer- The register is reporting that Foster server is delayed agian, this time to Q2 2001. Is this true? Also the register report the Foster now uses Rambus. What's the deal?
theregister.co.uk
The VP and general manager of Intel's enterprise platform group
today confirmed tightness in supply of Xeon 700MHz
microprocessors.
Earlier this week, we reported that Compaq kit was in short supply
because of the tightness.
And Fister also disclosed others details of Intel's future roadmap
plans, confirming stories we wrote earlier this year.
Fister said of the 700MHz Xeon shortage, "capacity is tight" but
added that when such shortages occurred, chips were given to firms,
such as Compaq and Dell, depending on their forward forecasts.
He said that the Xeon family will continue with Gallatin, a shrunk .13
micron version, while its 82870 chipset will support McKinley, a
64-bit processor, and Gallatin, as well as other "future" processors.
Further, the 82870 will also support synchronous memory, double
data rate memory, and Rambus, simultaneously, he said.
While Intel said at its spring developer forum that Foster, the
Pentium 4's grown up server brother, would support DDR, he said
that the 860 chipset for the microprocessor, will now support
Rambus memory, again as revealed here.
But there's one codename we hadn't come across before, and that
is Plumas. This vague chipset is for dual processing servers,
although of which flavour, Fister did not say.
Foster, meanwhile, seems to have developed that persistent Intel
infection called "lateness".
Roadmaps leaked to The Reg originally suggested Foster
processors would appear in Q1. This will happen for workstation
flavours of the microprocessor, but multiprocessing (MP) four way
and eight way Fosters won't now happen until quarter three of next
year and will be a "pilot release". Dual processor parts, based on
the ServerWorks chipset, won't be introduced until Q2 of next year. ® |
