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To: Paul Engel who wrote (85978)7/19/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: DownSouth  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
From the RMBS thread RE PC133;

Anyone hear anything from INTC about this:

To: John Stichnoth (24972 )
From: Burgoo ( Ignore ) Monday, Jul 19 1999 12:58PM ET
Reply # of 25123

I guess maybe Intel isn't so excited about rambus after all. This just hit www.theregister.co.uk

Posted 19/07/99 5:01pm by Mike Magee

Intel changes mind on PC-133

Intel will, within the next three hours, announce it is re-evaluating the PC-133 SDRAM
standard for the chips it makes.

The goliath has had back up plans for the whole year but has now kowtowed to
pressure from its third party manufacturers.

But this is far from a humiliation for the chip giant, said a source.

She said that Intel had realised that the amount of support for PC-133 meant that there
was a case for the SDRAM standard.

Intel will continue to support Rambus and its efforts.

All our readers have to is to search on the number 133 on this site to see the complete
background.

Over the last eight weeks or so, Intel has changed its case on the PC-133 standard.
The whole of the mobo industry wanted it to support it from day uno.

Many Intel customers, including HP, IBM and Compaq, have persuaded the goliath to
change its mind. The mobo manufacturers are peripheral... ®