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To: kash johal who wrote (86884)	1/13/2000 12:59:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1573811

Kash, <Celeron(coppermine 128) - desktop at 2-3 speed grades Coppermine(coppermine 256)-desktop at 4-5 speed grades Coppermine+(coppermine 512)- desktop at 3-4 speeds grades> My gut tells me that CuMine 256 is a transient product. There will be very little performance difference between CuMine128 and CuMine256 on most benchmarks and Intel probably needs CuMine512 just to create some differentiation. So, I expect CuMine-128 (Celeron) at the low-end and CuMine-512 at the high end. <Willamette - several speed grades> By the time Wilamette ramps up some of the other products should fade away. But, you do raise an interesting issue for the transition. Q4 2000 could be a logistical nightmare for Intel. <Geez thats just desktops and we haven't counted for 66Mhz/100/133 speed bus segmentations plus DDR and let alone DDRII.> My understanding is that 66MHz will disappear after Q1. I am expecting CuMine-128 introductions beginning in Q2 to start at 600MHz and sport a 100MHz bus. <Now lets count laptops - well maybe not - overall a very confused picture IMHO.> Actually, this is the only area that I feel good about Intel. Unlike the Celeron/PII days the Celeron/CuMine is a very nice segmentation boundary. Only problem for Intel may be that, to date, there is very little interest in Celeron for Consumer laptops. Chuck