Re: Again, what does that Foster have to do with
Tony, I listed the alternatives to Tualatin and said they needed new software or Rambus. Perhaps and/or Rambus would have been clearer. Sorry for any confusion, but I figured that all of us here on the board were up on those issues.
Foster on a non-Rambus motherboard won't need RDRAM. It's initial SMP chipset, Colusa, was originally going to RDRAM only, but as the scale of the Rambus disaster became clear, Colusa has been re-spun to support SDRAM. How well do you expect Dual P4 cores to do when they are running against SDRAM?
82850 (Tehama) Willamette, AGP, FSB400, RDRAM PC800
82860 (Colusa) Foster, DualCPU, FSB400, RDRAM PC800, 8GB max
82870 Xeon/Itanium, AGP, max. 2GB RAM, OctCPU, RDRAM or SDRAM/DDR 266
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"The 870 has seven different components. We simply configure it by mix or match of components for Direct RDRAM or DDR," Fister said.The 870 is then slated to be available for the next-generation 32-bit Foster servers in the first half of 2002, he said. The Intel 870 server chipset also created uncertainly regarding the ServerWorks Inc. DDR chipset, which Intel is using for the Foster and McKinley servers.
Fister said, however, that Intel intends to hold a technology lead with its own chipsets, capitalizing on the 870 and other new units coming to market. Among the new Intel chipsets is an 860 chipset to debut in the first quarter of 2001 to support workstations with SDRAM memory. The 860 is a successor to the dual-memory channel 840 that uses Direct Rambus memory. An upgraded Xeon server family in 2001 will be supported by a new Galatin chipset.
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