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To: Paul Engel who wrote (89095)	9/29/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and all, MPR discusses Merced's 460GX chipset in recent Sept. 13 issue. Most of the content is technical stuff, like a peak memory bandwidth of 4.2 GB/sec ("twice what we expect of the Merced bus" according to MPR), ECC on memory and system buses, DRAM chip-kill, error scrubbing, 2.1 GB/sec of I/O bandwidth, and other goodies fit for a server. But the last paragraph sums up the benefits quite nicely: With its greater memory capacity, improved bandwidth, and greater I/O support, the 460GX offers a big step forward from Intel's existing four-processor chip set, making it well suited to the higher performance of Merced. Along with the 460GX, Intel is also developing a four-processor motherboard code-named Lion. With these off-the-shelf technologies, OEMs will be able to deploy powerful Merced workstations and servers with little upfront investment. We expect many system makers to take advantage of this opportunity, resulting in a plethora of relatively inexpensive Merced boxes by the end of next year. Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (89095)	9/29/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Actually, the Canadian shield is an excellent and stable place, I believe. A little cold in winter. I think the eroded roots of very old mountains might be nice. Some good stuff in Australia. I agree that putting a server bank in Santa Clara is uncharacteristically dumb --- but the same goes for fabs in Israel and Ireland for political reasons at the times they were done. Maybe these fabs have helped to stabilize Irish and Israeli politics. Maybe the Santa Clara farm will help stabilize some of the many faults in Silicon Valley. <g>

To: Paul Engel who wrote (89095)	9/29/1999 3:29:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul: Am visiting my kids in the Bay area and find that the ongoing disasters in the State of Emergency are the taxes and the price of food and gas. You guys are bears for punishment. On the other hand I love the weather. By the way what is with all this negativity re: INTC All the news is great. Are they afraid Taiwan wil effect the number of boxes being made that wil use INTC chips. Delay of 820 doen't seem like a big deal. JFD

To: Paul Engel who wrote (89095)	9/29/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Paul: Speaking of safe. You know ever since the earthquake in Taiwan I have found myself AMAZED that the world allowed Taiwan to become so individually important to technology. Gosh, what would happen if the Mainland Chinese decided to attack and take over directly the country? Frankly, until now, I never gave it a thought. Scary isnt it? As to the fault zone, my thoughts are known and I really have nothing to add. Time will tell who is correct. But forgetting even all that just from a cost standpoint it is VERY expensive even to build a damn warehouse in Calif compared to say Nevada. I had a client once with an operation in Southern Calif. He wanted to build a simple warehouse to store inventory. Whole thing cost under $3 million. Well the locals wanted $550,000 for PERMITS etc etc. So he built it across the state line in Nevada, permit cost $7.50!!! And that was years ago. JDN