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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (63610)	6/28/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572103

Cringe - Re: "That DELAY is costly for Intel because for each Profusion chipset sold, 8 earnings-savings Xeons are sold" That is a problem. Fortunately, it's not a major problem because the OS that will support these 8-way systems - Windows 2000 - has been delayed even longer and the 8-way Profusion systems should be shipping ahead of the Windows 2000 OS. When do the 8-way Athlate systems ship ? Beter yet, When do the 1-way Athlate systems ship ? Paul

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (63610)	6/28/1999 4:45:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572103

<That DELAY is costly for Intel because for each Profusion chipset sold, 8 earnings-savings Xeons are sold.> A few nitpicks here. Not every Profusion chipset will have eight Xeons running right out of the box. A lot will start with four and leave four CPU slots empty for future expansion. Also, the volumes on the Profusion platform will probably be even lower than that of 4-way 450NX or Carmel platforms. My guess is that 4-way systems are the current sweet spot for Intel-based servers and workstations, also known as "Standard High Volume" or SHV. Profusion's job, in my opinion, is to drive the 8-way SHV server platform for the long-term future. It's not necessarily supposed to be a short-term cash-cow for Intel. Tenchusatsu