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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (33407)6/18/1998 10:40:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) of 1572099
 
Pravin,
Even though the Celeron will run on a LX or BX board I have to wonder how many of these boards actually find a Celeron chip. To my knowledge the Celeron systems that HP is selling use the EX chipset and the mobo is made by Intel. I think maybe Intel is the only mobo maker using the EX.
The Socket 470 thing is clearly is clearly a quasi low cost solution so that Intel can get down and dirty in the sub-$1000 area. Paul, bless his heart, is exactly right about Intels paranoid strategy. They don't want to give up any segment of the CPU market even if it doesn't yield as much profit as they like for fear they may be left behind...and they like to keep the pressure on the competition...just in case.
Remember that the EX and LX chipsets don't support 100MHz only 66.
Besides that with the cache on the chip you don't gain that much going to 100Mhz anyway so Intel is clearly going for low cost here.
Funny thing is that all they had to do is go back to the good 'ole Pentium MMX at 300MHz on .25u...but then again they feel like they have to burn socket 7. So be it.
As far as the K6-3...it's really a souped up K6-2 but with the cache running at clockspeed....should get a nice speed gain but at a $ cost.
Mendocino will indeed canibalize the Pentium II.
I need to study the die size of the K6-3 vs the Mendocino. Any ideas?
Jim
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