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To: Gary Ng who wrote (63309)	6/25/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571973

Gary, BTW, to hold Moore's Law, shouldn't we see 800Mhz parts from Intel by year end as there was(?) 400Mhz parts back in 2Q98? I have read the same press, postings, etc. as you and I think Intel is still going to ship 800MHz chips this year and AMD may, with luck, do the same. Why isn't this possible? Bob

To: Gary Ng who wrote (63309)	6/25/1999 12:37:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1571973

Gary - <I thought it slipped twice. I remembered it was initially set around the June time frame(?) but pushed back citing RDRAM availability as the cause ? > I believe the Camino delay and the Coppermine delay independent of each other. <BTW, to hold Moore's Law, shouldn't we see 800Mhz parts from Intel by year end as there was(?) 400Mhz parts back in 2Q98 ?> I believe it will be close. PB

To: Gary Ng who wrote (63309)	6/25/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: fyo	Respond to of 1571973

Gary - Re: Intel better do it. BTW, to hold Moore's Law, shouldn't we see 800Mhz parts from Intel by year end as there was(?) 400Mhz parts back in 2Q98 ? [sic] Moore's Law was more a statement of the industry as a whole. Clearly, some parts of the industry are more in line with this than others. There are all sorts of hiccups and what not. A good example of a hiccup is, IMHO, Coppermine. I would still argue that Moore's Law is pretty much on target (even if CuMine doesn't hit 800MHz until Q2). OT: When Moore formulated his postulate, he used the term 'processing power' of transistors. Interestingly enough, although we today consider Moore's Law to be a doubling every 18 months, his original formulation was 'no worse than a factor-of-two improvements every two years over the next 30 years'. FYI, that was in the mid-sixties. --fyodor