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To: Patrick E.McDaniel who wrote (140125)	8/20/1999 10:24:00 PM
From: kemble s. matter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Patrick, Hi!!! RE: Kemble, Dell said it plans to deliver an eight-processor Pentium III Xeon server at the end of September. Like I keep saying...The lake gets bigger all the time.. :o) Best,Kemble

To: Patrick E.McDaniel who wrote (140125)	8/21/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

Patrick - 8 processor systems are the largest that current Intel chipsets support, so DELL is unlikely to offer anything larger until Intel develops bigger chipsets. DELL announced pricing for their 8-ways - a system with 8 processors is $125,000. The same system from CPQ is $80,000. DELL had said they would price these systems aggressively but the initial offering is 50% higher... what gives?? Keep in mind that CPQ co-developed the 8-way chipset with Intel. That means DELL (and every other OEM who produces an 8-way system using the Intel Profusion chips) must pay CPQ a royalty on each system shipped. I don't know what that amounts to, not much probably, but it is an interesting marketing point. I hope DELL gets some good benchmark numbers out on their 8-way architecture and gets the pricing fixed - this is a critical market for DELL.