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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (28136)	8/30/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Respond to of 93625

Did anybody see this yet? intel.com There's an old Vermont saying, "You can't get there from here." Wise words indeed, if you're tempted to brave uncertain country back roads to achieve a far-off destination. But the phrase also applies to businesses trying to keep pace with rapidly evolving e-business tools and applications. Aging client PCs and servers often lack the tools to support a responsive and secure e-business environment. Good news. Intel is paving a road to the e-business future. Next month, a pair of new chipsets will enhance the performance, manageability and security of systems based on Intel© Pentium© III processors. For IT and business managers alike, the Intel© 820 and Intel© 810e chipsets establish a stable platform into the next millennium, offering cutting-edge features while building upon the foundation established by the popular 440BX chipset. The Intel 820 chipset will deliver superior performance and features for performance-savvy users while the Intel 810e chipset will appear in mainstream business and consumer systems. Both will offer performance superior to that of the 440BX chipset, with support for a 133MHz front side bus that is 33% faster than that of 440BX chipset-based PCs. Best of all, the chipsets allow businesses to unify the computing infrastructure while poising it for the future. The High Road Virtually all applications benefit from faster motherboard bus speed, particularly as processor frequencies scale to 600MHz and beyond. However, the Intel 820 chipset also introduces support for a new memory type?Direct RDRAM?to help keep blazing processors well stocked with data. Memory intensive operations such as multimedia playback, 3D graphics, statistical analysis, and database processing all benefit from high-throughput Direct RDRAM, which can double the throughput of today's SDRAM-based memory systems. In fact, the Intel 820 chipset overhauls the PC platform to ensure smooth data flow to the processor. The next-generation AGP 4X graphics bus, for example, doubles available data throughput compared to AGP 2X. For emerging 3D graphics applications, which employ system memory to store very large texture data and other 3D data types, Intel 820 chipset-based systems deliver unparalleled realism and responsiveness. The Intel 820 chipset breaks other bottlenecks as well. The Intel© Accelerated Hub Architecture provides direct connections between the chipset and subsystems such as IDE controllers, USB controllers, and PCI add-in cards. At the same time, the bolstered ATA-66 IDE interface doubles the peak throughput for disk drive transfers, enabling faster file transfers, smoother multimedia playback, and lower system resource consumption. For workstations and even high-end desktops, the Intel 820 chipset integrates dual-processor symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. By integrating this logic directly into the Intel 820 chipset, multiprocessing desktops and workstations should become available at lower costs. IT managers will also find them more reliable and easier to manage. Driving Down Main Street For businesses targeting a specific price point for basic computing needs, the Intel 810e chipset offers many of the performance benefits of the Intel 820 chipset. The Intel 810e chipset features a fast 133MHz motherboard, the Accelerated Hub Architecture, and the ATA-66 disk interface. The Intel 810e chipset reduces cost by integrating the graphics subsystem directly into the chipset, and it employs mature SDRAM system memory. The chipset supports motherboard bus speeds of 66MHz, 100MHz and 133MHz to ensure versatility with a wide range of platforms. Both the Intel 820 and Intel 810e chipsets introduce important changes to the PC platform. At the same time, they build upon the feature set of the 440BX chipset. Support for Wired for Management 2.0, Alert on LAN* 2.0, and power management technologies such as APM and Instantly Available PC all enhance manageability and lower total cost of ownership. Significantly, the Intel 820 and Intel 810e chipsets are ready for e-business. The integrated random number generator helps provide superior security by creating random numbers in hardware. Random values are the fundamental basis for encryption, virtual private networks and public key infrastructures using the system's chaotic thermal noise and other physical phenomena. The result: truly random values that enhance protocols such as SSL and IPsec. By contrast, software-based random number generators are unable to deliver truly random values. Taken together, the many features of the Intel 820 and Intel 810e chipsets lay the foundation for responsive, secure and manageable computing in the e-business era. For businesses seeking to compete in the volatile Internet economy, systems based on this technology provide a direct road to a productive computing environment.