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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (66435)	7/22/1999 2:18:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587773

Cirruslvr, <but if OEMs decied to use PC100 instead> I saw some bandwidth calculations a while back suggesting that AGP-4 cannot be supported with PC100 and can be barely supported with PC133. I don't know if that is accurate - more knowledgeable people on the thread may want to comment. However, if that is the case then PC100 is out for AGP-4 apps meaning that VIA is going to be doing some serious butt kicking for the next couple of quarters. (Does anyone know if there is someway to invest in VIA, directly or indirectly in the US? ) I think PC133 is just a warmup round to what is likely to happen in the future - we may have a battle royale in a short time with Athlon motherboards with DDR-DRAM and Intel with RDRAM with the result being Intel backing out of RDRAM yet again and postponing it till Timna. Can't believe that Intel is screwing up this badly of late. Unfortunately, the sorry part is, given AMDs sorry track record, even with all of Intel's screw ups most people do not believe AMD can propser! Chuck