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To: Don Green who wrote (78)	12/1/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Orion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2039

This has probably been already posted, but I didn't see it on this thread and did not read the other one for 3 days. Nice to read anyway : "With its enhanced features and significant increase in bandwidth for current and emerging applications, the Intel 820 chipset provides the greatest available performance, flexibility and longevity of any desktop chipset," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel's platform components group. techweb.com Santa Clara, Calif. - One of the most talked about technologies this year finally arrived this month: Intel Corp.'s Rambus-supporting 820 chipset. Intel formally launched the product Nov. 15, coinciding with the first day of Comdex/Fall. For most of this year, the 820 chipset attracted attention and controversy. Not only was it plagued by delays, but many in the industry have debated the price and performance of the new Rambus memory technology. In September, the latest delay of the chipset forced grumbling OEMs to suddenly put their 820-based systems on hold. Intel said the 820, with support for Direct Rambus DRAM and 4xAGP technology, offers enhanced memory and graphics capabilities for high-performance Pentium III desktop systems. Direct RDRAM provides twice the peak memory bandwidth of 100MHz SDRAM, the company said. The chipset also supports the faster 133MHz front-side bus of many of the new Pentium III chips. "With its enhanced features and significant increase in bandwidth for current and emerging applications, the Intel 820 chipset provides the greatest available performance, flexibility and longevity of any desktop chipset," said Louis Burns, vice president and general manager of Intel's platform components group. Hewlett-Packard Co., Compaq Computer Corp. and Dell Computer Corp. introduced 820-based workstations at Comdex/Fall. But the 820's delays and Rambus problems have helped alternative memory technologies gain momentum. Via Technologies Inc.'s Apollo Pro 133A chipset, with support for PC133 (133MHz SDRAM), became popular due to the delays of the 820, formerly code-named Camino. "Because Camino was delayed so significantly, it left many [motherboard] vendors with no choice but to look for alternative chipsets," said a motherboard maker. "When Solano comes out, Intel will regain its momentum." Intel said it will offer chipset support for PC133 in the first half of 2000. The company has not offered many details, but sources said Intel's future Solano chipset will support PC133. Also gaining ground is Double-data rate SDRAM (DDR). DDR technology essentially doubles the rate of data transfer from a DRAM chip to the main processor and is scalable with the current generation of SDRAM. Micron Technology Inc., Boise, Idaho, announced earlier this month that its internally developed DDR demonstration platform showed "significant advantages" in benchmark tests compared with other high-bandwidth solutions. These tests confirm that DDR SDRAM delivers the high-bandwidth, low-latency performance needed to keep pace with advanced microprocessors and graphics subsystems, Micron Technology executives said. Joseph F. Kovar contributed to this story.