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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (69905)	8/26/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572965

Paul, Did the old boards have enough pins for a P-II?, ie; with an adaptor that plugs into a pentium xxx socket and accepts a P-II would they run? Or was a new mobo needed anyway? I suspect a new mobo was needed and the slot 1 was an attempt to force a parade off to left field with AMD unable to follow. After is turned out to be an error, guess what happened?, why socket 370. I bet they can make P-IIIs run with a pin type socket as advances in bumptech allows for density and heat dissipation and the smaller submicron features allow it all to fit. I suspect that AMD is getting a socket ready as we speak. As to AMD using the slot 1 connectors? They are there, they are in volume low cost production and will serve untila socket is readied for the price wars to come. As to not lowering the ASP with Celerons at $35...true if you sell a compensating number of Xeons at $2000, meybe 8% as many extra as celerons shoudl swing that average. When will Athlons, ready to work in large groups with cache to suit, be ready to crash the xeon party? I would say in 6 months from now there will be some presence in that arean, some qualifying tests....and they will all test and try...they want to crash the Xeon $2000 party to earth, Bill