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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (86893)	1/13/2000 1:29:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1574094

Cirruslvr, <I thought larger cache Xeons were coming out this month. Maybe I confused them with the 800MHz one. > Intel is in this tough situation where they are having to push clock speeds very aggressively to keep up with AMD. Unfortunately for Intel the situation with larger cache Xeons is much different. The volumes are light and the qual cycles are long. Intel addresses this problem by limiting the sham 256k Xeons to single/dual processor configurations so that they can continue to make money on the significantly slower but larger cache Xeons in to the 4 and 8 processor configurations. I think that game is going to be over very quickly once someone comes up with a chipset that can support 4-way or 8-way systems using off the shelf microprocessors (Athlon or PIII). In the mean time Intel will continue to rake in money on the old Xeons. Chuck