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To: jim kelley who wrote (59030)10/27/2000 4:52:30 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Jim, <This sounds like a simple marketing decision to de-rate the product so as to minimize cannibalization from the WS business>

I seriously doubt it. If Intel had the chance to make their mainstream platform perform the best it could, they would have. Like Kash already pointed out, the workstation market is only a small fraction of the entire PC market.

<I don't see any technical issues regarding heat or power that would be expensive or difficult ot overcome. After all, Intel solved these problems easily for the i840.>

It could have been signal interference which gets exacerbated as heat rises. The 840's six-layer motherboard (among other things) takes care of the interference issues, but six-layer motherboards are more expensive.

I'm sure there are a lot of other issues the engineers had to overcome. These sorts of issues aren't stuff that they'd normally talk about in public, since they're your basic engineering "challenges" that need to be overcome. My suspicion is that RDRAM had more than their fair share of engineering "challenges." And Intel is getting tired of pushing these issues by themselves, especially now that the rest of the industry seems reluctant to help Intel out.

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