Intel Investors - The 0.25 Micron, 333 MHz Deschutes may be released in January of next year.
This will be the first release of Deschutes, with a series of "Speed bumps" as the Cyrixoids like to say!
The timing (January 26, 1998) seems a bit early by a few weeks since Intel is presenting a paper at the February ISSCC on the Deschutes. In general, the ISSCC doesn't allow papers on pre-announced devices.
Check it out.
Paul
infoworld.com
Compaq, other vendors to unveil Deschutes
workstations
By Dan Briody
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:29 AM PT, Dec 15, 1997
In true PC-industry fashion, major vendors are lining up to support Intel's next-generation 333-MHz
Pentium II chip, code-named Deschutes and set for unveiling on Jan. 26 with high-powered desktop
PCs.
PC vendors will be announcing throngs of products on that date, availability pending.
Compaq's Professional Workstation 6000, the company's high-end workstation that currently comes in
dual-processor configurations, will include a single Deschutes chip, as well as 64MB of RAM, a 4GB
hard drive, and the forthcoming Elsa Gloria Synergy graphics card, sources said.
The Compaq Professional Workstation 5100 will include a 333-MHz processor, 32MB of RAM, and a
3.1GB hard drive.
Compaq also will announce one DeskPro 4000 and two 6000 models based on the 333-MHz chip. The
4000 will include 32MB of RAM and either a 2.4GB or 3.2GB hard drive. The 6000 will come in two
flavors, one with 64MB of RAM and one with 32MB of RAM, and a choice of a 2.4GB or 4.3GB hard
drive, as well as Intel's 440LX chip set with an Accelerated Graphics Port, or AGP.
But customers who need the processing power of dual 333-MHz Pentium II-based PCs may have to
wait longer.
"There is some doubt right now about when dual-processing with these chips will be available," said an
official at a PC OEM, who chose not to be identified. "We haven't been able to make too many product
plans because of that uncertainty."
Intel officials did not deny that Deschutes' dual-processing capabilities have slipped.
"When you develop a new processor, you do a lot of validation for single and dual configurations," one
Intel representative said. "There are times when you finish the single validation first and the dual later. It
wouldn't be uncommon that we would announce the product before validation was complete for
dual-processor configurations."
The forthcoming chip, the fastest of Intel's current microprocessor family, will be used initially in
workstations and high-powered desktops as Intel heats up its competition against Unix-based system
vendors.
Analysts cite Intel's eagerness to compete with Sun Microsystems as the reason for the premature
announcement.
"They're going to make a real run at Sun," said Rob Enderle, a senior analyst at Giga Information Group,
in Santa Clara, Calif. "They are rolling this aggressively and some of the high-end stuff has not been
worked out yet."
NEC will announce 333-MHz systems -- which will include 64MB of RAM and new manageability
features, according to sources -- as a prelude to a workstation line it will introduce early in 1998.
Other vendors to announce 333-MHz systems include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, and Gateway. Prices
for Deschutes-based systems should start around $3,500, according to analysts.
Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., can be reached at (408) 765-8080 or intel.com.
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