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To: Elmer who wrote (62174)	8/9/1998 2:41:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Elmer - Re: " Are they talking about 450mhz Xeons?" It appears to be the following: Intel IS SHIPPING 400 MHz Xeons and 450NX chip sets 4-way SMP Servers running at 400 MHz. Intel WILL SHIP 450 MHz Xeons and 440 GX chip sets for workstations and 2-WAY SMP Servers. By the way - the 440 GX - and it's "little" cousin, the 440 BX - look really solid. I think Intel had a very different design and development team do the 440 BX/GX than the 450 NX design team. My suspicion is that Intel is delaying the 450 MHz Xeon/450NX chip set introduction in order to do DESIGN improvements on either or/both of these - to correct the marginalities in these chips - either due to ECC issues or other 4-WAY communications issues. Screening these parts via sophisticated testing can only go so far - and it is EXPENSIVE. A design upgrade seems to be in order. The 5 month delay should allow enough time for circuit analysis and timing studies, design changes and re-layout plus silicon wafer manufacturing, testing and verification. Paul

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