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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kash johal who wrote (86873)	1/13/2000 12:27:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573718

Kash, <I did look at Intels public ramp. They show timna in the 466Mhz space for H2 2000. I have NO idea how they sell any of these - particularly when coupled with expensive RDRAM memory. VIA will eat Timna's lunch if this is really intel low end offering. I had heard 600Mhz+ speeds so lets see what Intel delivers in H2 2000.> There is no reason for Timna to be much slower than PIII, don't you think? So, I read this to mean that Intel is being extremely careful in its segmentation to make sure Timna doesn't eat into its mainstream PC revenues. Or, alternatley, Intel is trying to bluff competition. Chuck

To: kash johal who wrote (86873)	1/13/2000 1:27:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1573718

Kash, <I did look at Intels public ramp. They show timna in the 466Mhz space for H2 2000.> Let me put it this way. Do you think Intel's public roadmap is etched in concrete? To me, that roadmap is written in very erasable ink on a whiteboard. <I have NO idea how they sell any of these - particularly when coupled with expensive RDRAM memory.> There's always the MRH-S component (formerly known as MTH), which converts the RDRAM channel to SDRAM. Though this somewhat defeats the purpose of having an integrated RDRAM controller on the die, it can still provide an interim solution until RDRAM prices come down, probably by the end of 2000. And according to MPR, that component is only going to add $5 to the cost of a motherboard. On the other hand, if RDRAM is going to be featured in a $299 Playstation 2 from Sony, there's no reason why it can't be featured in a sub-$800 Timna-based PC. Yeah, Sony will probably sell PS2 at a loss for the first year or so, making up for it with game royalties, but that doesn't mean they can naively ignore the cost. Tenchusatsu