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To: Charles R who wrote (65894)	7/17/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573811

Charles, <why getting motherboards for Athlon can be such a big deal? > As you might heard, Intel refused to release their bus at 133MHz for some time. There must be some technical reasons I guess. Also, don't you remember those industry-wide problems with PC-100 SDRAM? Funny enough, but the solution was to adapt the Intel-proposed DIMM layout which is custom tuned for signal/clock skew of i440BX chip and associated board tracing. Now, what do you think if you need to pump data at 200MHz? I think it requires some quality engineering of board layout and thorough understanding of transmission line technology. It takes some time to tune some 100+ transmission lines I guess. Eventually, there should be no problem. Take care,