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To: unclewest who wrote (35178)	11/24/1999 3:08:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Shrouds off Rambus stations MARY OEY 11/23/1999 South China Morning Post Page 6 (c) Copyright 1999 South China Morning Post Publishers. All Rights Reserved. IBM, Dell Computer and Compaq Computer introduced Rambus -based workstations at Comdex as Intel officially released its long-awaited and much-delayed 820 chipset and 840 chipset. Rambus is a new type of memory chip, which Intel claims is twice as fast as the present standard, SDRam. Intel's 820 chipset makes it possible for the computer's processor to communicate with Rambus DRam - or RDRam - at speeds up to 1.6 gigabits per second. Intel has pushed the standard hard, to some opposition from Taiwanese chip manufacturers. The chip is almost two months late in arriving, due to technical problems. Its delay was costly and embarrassing for several large PC-makers, such as Hewlett-Packard and Dell, who had already publicly announced Rambus systems. It is estimated that the industry lost more than US$100 million in unusable motherboards, the main circuit board of a computer. Before the delay, HP had already announced its Rambus commercial PC, the Vectra VL600. It now hopes to start shipping the VL600 later this month. Dell has introduced its mid-range Precision Workstation 420, which uses the 840 chipset and is capable of communicating with RDRam at a peak speed of 3.2 gigabits per second. The $2,609 machine has 128 MB of memory and runs on a 600 MHz Pentium processor. IBM demonstrated its E Pro workstations, which use the 820 chipset, and the M Pro, which uses the 840. Compaq expects to ship its Rambus -based commercial PCs, AP550 and SP750, this month.