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To: KM who wrote (32020)	10/12/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

Getting to look a lot like Christmas. You just got to put up with some crazy retail shopping before it. They confirm 840 for Oct 25. ebns.com Intel expects to ship Camino chip set in Q4 By Mark Hachman Electronic Buyers' News (10/12/99, 05:27:05 PM EDT) SANTA CLARA, Calif. ? Intel Corp.'s twice-delayed Camino PC chip set will ship in the fourth quarter, most likely in November, according to industry sources who were briefed by Intel Monday (Oct. 11). Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) professed no knowledge of the meeting, which several sources said was conducted in advance of the company's quarterly earnings conference call, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. "There have been no public updates on Camino," said an Intel spokesman, who added that platform integration work continues and no new launch date has been scheduled. Sources at Monday's briefing said they were specifically told that Intel would roll out the Camino, or Intel 820 chip set, in the fourth quarter. The company also indicated that it would be able to ship the product at that time, though only in small quantities. Yesterday's briefing suprised at least one staunch Intel customer, a major PC OEM, which told EBN that its procurement department had still received no word on the official Camino launch date. The Intel 840 chip set, which contains two Direct Rambus channels, is still scheduled to be launched on Oct. 25 in conjunction with Intel's Coppermine microprocessors. Analysts and industry sources said the bug that delayed the Camino launch last month was caused when signal integrity issues arose in motherboards using three Direct Rambus-in-line memory module (RIMM) slots. Further technical detail was unavailable, but analysts and Rambus Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) have said the error does not occur in the Direct Rambus memory itself. Several sources were divided as to whether the reworked design ? which will use a two-slot module implementation ? will force suppliers to scrap existing Camino-based motherboards. In either case, they said, OEMs will likely shy away from any potentially faulty boards, which likely means that Camino systems will not have much of an effect on the Christmas selling season. "There may be some number of systems sold during the fourth quarter, but I'm not sure we'll see significant end-user volume until Q1," one source said. When it releases its third-quarter fiscal results later Tuesday, Intel is expected to report earnings of 57 cents a share, according to 28 analysts surveyed by First Call Corp.