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To: Charles R who wrote (91092)	2/2/2000 3:21:00 PM
From: xun	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574189

Chuck, I read some info from poseidon_dude on the Yahoo board wrt the Hotrail shipset for AMD. Do you see anything from it? "--- RE: sunyvail server by: poseidon_dude 2/2/00 1:57 pm Msg: 105904 of 105949 Hello sunyvail, I am working at Hotrail and I can give you some information about Hotrail's server. Hotrail is building a 4 way chip set, that can be scaled larger in the future. Originally the main competition was "Intel, Correlary, Reliance" (spelled wrong). But now it is not the competition that is our biggest problem. " It is AMD". AMD's technology is moving too fast for us to keep up. The orignal design was for a 200 MHz system clock with 512K cache. But AMD is now at 266 MHz and next will be 400 MHz. And the cache is growing. The newest Ultra will be 2 Mbyte internal 16-way associative cache. We are making improvements. Let me tell you it is very hard to keep up with AMD. "--- "--- RE: sunnyvail LDT by: poseidon_dude 2/2/00 2:13 pm Msg: 105913 of 105949 Yes I have allot of good news about LDT. Hotrail has working chips using the 1.6 Ghz LDT for 6 months now. Actually AMD was waiting for Hotrail's silicon before they would commit to it. AMD was going to build their own version slightly different from Hotrails, but they were lacking the physical layer. I don't know how far they have come on their design, but I know they can do it. There is work being done to get 3.2 Ghz, but 1.6 Ghz is already very fast, and very reliable. "--- Regards, panic_mob