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To: Scumbria who wrote (96581)	1/17/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Why would a server vendor want to design their own 32 way chip set? It is risky and the costs of an Intel chipset are relatively small compared to the profits made on large servers.> Maybe because Intel won't have a 32-way chipset? Heck, Intel won't even have an 8-way Merced chipset, despite having an 8-way Xeon chipset. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Remember you were asking me a while back about Linux being used internally for Intel R&D? I now have first-hand confirmation that this indeed is the case. A few groups, including Willamette (interestingly enough), have moved their development over to Linux, with positive results.

To: Scumbria who wrote (96581)	1/17/2000 8:30:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

SCUMbria - Re: "Why would a server vendor want to design their own 32 way chip set? It is risky and the costs of an Intel chipset are relatively small compared to the profits made on large servers." So far, Intel has not committed (publically at least) to making 32 way Chip Sets. Intel like to concentrate on the HIGH VOLUME - 2,4 and 8-way configurations, so it will most likely focus its efforts at these levels. IBM, HP and Hitachi - among others - are taking on these 32 Bit chips set tasks themselves - probably to make their systems "unique" to each OEM despite the smaller volume of such configurations. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (96581)	1/17/2000 10:26:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, probably not nothin, but multichannel.com GI Must Recall Boxes New York -- Motorola Inc.'s newly acquired General Instrument Corp. unit has had to recall at least 37,000 of its popular "DCT-2000" digital set-tops because of a defective component that made them inoperable, cable sources said. The boxes in question were shipped to cable operators in recent weeks, and they were manufactured in the fourth quarter of last year, Motorola senior vice president David Robinson has confirmed. GI has the identification numbers of the faulty boxes, and earlier this month it began notifying cable operators that had received them about the problem. The notice said the boxes "are not able to be fielded due to a performance issue with the Intel [Corp.] flash component" and, as a result, "they will not be able to properly receive code downloads." GI said the boxes had to come back for a "memory performance upgrade," one operator source said, reading from the notice. - 1/14/00