Paul, Re: "The new ROADMAP shows the 333 MHz Mendocino to be Officially Introduced
September 13, 1998."
I asked Paul Otellini after the stockholders' meeting, which was, as you know, May 20th, when introduction of Mendocino would be. He said 4Q98. So, Mendocino intro of 9/13, which Intel could still beat (or slip, or stay the same) is at least a month early compared to 3 weeks ago.
I said to Paul that I thought Mendocino was important to stop the snickering, etc. going on about Celery, etc., that Intel needed a full-strength Celeron. He agreed, although he said that the first Celeron, @ 266 MHz and no L2 cache was ~ 10% faster than PMMX 233. He said that was the goal. I said OK, and all the ridicule about no L2 cache was pure BS...even mainframes did not have L2 cache until about four years ago. He got a laugh out of that. What's AMD got to compete with Mendocino for the Christmas season?
Tony |
