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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (48521)	9/21/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: zsteve	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

interesting, Micron Electronics doesn't want to use Intel 820 chipsets: yahoo.cnet.com Micron avoiding the 820 One manufacturer, Micron Electronics, has already decided to use a rival chipset from Via Technologies, because it allows the PC maker to get the same performance the 820 provides while cutting $200 to $300 off the price tag of a system, said product manager Robert Wheadon. The Via-based systems will show up at the top end of Micron's line in systems using 600-MHz or 533-MHz Intel chips, he said. Micron's speed testing has shown that both the Via chipset and the 820 show an increase of 3 or 4 percent over current Intel chipsets in real-world tasks, Wheadon said. Francisco said Intel's position has been that customers "aren't going to see some astronomical difference." But Micron is more enthusiastic about a later chipset, Intel's 840 or "Carmel" product, due in the first half of 2000. The Carmel chipset will have two channels the main processor can use to talk to main memory, doubling the bandwidth and making the computer better able to utilize Rambus' theoretical capacity.