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To: grok who wrote (30304)	9/23/1999 6:57:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

KZNerd, <What about Profusion? I've lost track of it.> Profusion uses PC100 SDRAM. It's a pretty sweet design. It can support up to eight Xeons, four per FSB. There's a third FSB that connects up to I/O buses like Hot-Plug PCI. And there are two memory ports that each support interleaved PC100 SDRAM. Compaq is already selling a Proliant server based on Profusion for about $85K. Going from four to eight processors shows a 1.6x scalability on ZDNet's ServerBench, which is pretty good. I think TPC-C might be even better. Unfortunately, Profusion is too high-end to compete with RCC's chipsets, or with Carmel for that matter. Tenchusatsu

To: grok who wrote (30304)	9/23/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

KZ: I from information on Intel web site they say 1H 2000 for Carmel. Since that will be 1 to 2 GB of memory platform, Intel needs to wait for volume ramp up of RDRAM. It would be silly to try to rush it and not have enough RAM to stuff motherboard with. Better to tweak design to maximum performance until RAM appears. Will report to board Tuesday night on International Test Conference in Atlantic City on RDRAM test equipment status. I may hit slots instead if the market tanks Friday and Monday. I have interesting story that my father told me a few years ago when he and my mother came back from a Atlantic City on $20 of quarters bus trip. He said he was amazed that people who were plunking down money in $1 slots thought they were gambling. All he would tell me that "They have no idea what gambling was." It wasn't until he died that I knew what he was talking about. His broker said dad was always always extremely bullish in the 90's always asking to buy another long S&P futures contract. john