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

To: steve harris who wrote (90728)	1/31/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572376

Steve, all I know is that for Intel, all Slot 1 processors will move to FC-PGA 370 "Socketmine" (my personal nickname for those socketed Coppermines) before the end of 2000. Right now, the only FC-PGA motherboards out there are based on the 810e chipset, which isn't meant for SMP. I'm sure once 820 and 840-based motherboards start moving to FC-PGA, Intel will enable Socketmines for SMP. I don't know about Slot 2 Xeons, though. I would think that once Cascades is released (Coppermine w/ 2MB on-die cache), Intel would have a prime opportunity to ditch that ugly Xeon cartridge once and for all. Heck, even the Merced cartridge is more compact than the Slot 2 Xeon package. But moving Slot 2 to some sort of "socket 2" seems like too much work for too little of a return. Tenchusatsu