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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (74344)	10/6/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1573224

Cirruslvr, Post-quake component crunch hits PC motherboards eetimes.com ---Some interesting points from the article--- ... Yet at almost as the same time as Taiwan's earthquake, Intel delayed the release of its 820 chip set, code-named Camino. "The 820 may be delayed until year-end," said the sales manager for one Taiwan mainboard maker. "Then we may or may not have to do a new mask set for the pc board. It could be another two months [more] of development before we have an 820 mainboard." ... Officials at Intel Taiwan declined to say when the 820 would finally be introduced. They did say, however, that they are looking to ramp up their BX chips set. ... But "the 810 is immensely unpopular," said the project manager. "Some of our customers are willing to wait and work off inventory, and raid the gray market, just because their customers just don't want" an 810. ... The problem is not just a dearth of core logic, "but of all the other 700 components that go into a mainboard," concurred the project manager. "Some we have in inventory, but others we just ordered on a day-to-day basis. The power shortages have made that ordering strategy fall apart. Products like our new K7 mainboards are especially hard hit." _______________ Goutama