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To: Glenn Norman who wrote (990)	2/14/2000 5:31:00 PM
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Yo_"BU$$ER$............ More on IDF for tomorrow: Monday February 14 01:37 PM EST Intel's new chips highlight conference By John G. Spooner, ZDNet News The first public discussions of its fastest chips will headline the semiannual Intel Developer Forum. AMD plans to chip in too. Intel Corp. this week will throw a Palm Springs, Calif., coming-out party for three new chips. The Santa Clara, Calif., chip maker will discuss for the first time publicly new details on two new chips and go over a third new -- but well-known -- chip, the Itanium, this week at the Intel Developer Forum. Along with the Itanium, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC - news) plans to ship a new low-cost processor, code-named Timna, and a new high-end desktop processor, code-named Willamette, in the second half of this year. For consumers, information disclosed at the event will be relevant because the new chips should make possible a new class of lower-cost desktop PCs and at the same time push high-end desktops to new levels of performance, according to Intel. Timna will be aimed at the value-PC market. PCs using it could cost as little at $399. Willamette, on the other hand, is designed for speed. It will appear in high-end PCs by the end of the year. The chip will be paired with a new chip set, code-named Tehama, which should offer a faster system bus and support for Rambus memory, known as RDRAM. Offering a faster bus and utilizing Rambus memory, which is said to be faster than today's synchronous dynamic RAM, will help the chip set deliver an overall system performance increase vs. the Pentium III and its 440BX or 820 chip sets. Intel will also highlight its Itanium processor. The 64-bit processor for high-end workstations and servers will be the subject of many discussions on software. Software developers need to port their applications to gain maximum performance with the new chip. Lots to explain The developer forum comes at a difficult time in Intel's history. The company has been faced with new competition from Advanced Micor Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD - news) and, at the same time, product delays and shortages, which, despite record shipments, have strained relations with PC maker customers, such as Gateway Inc. Gateway blasted Intel in January, claiming shortages of certain chips hurt the PC maker's fourth-quarter earnings. Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL - news) also fingered Intel for lost business in the fourth quarter, citing shortages of the company's 450MHz Pentium III and 800MHz Pentium III, along with a delay in the shipment of Intel's 820 chip set, as the cause of $300 million in lost business. Dell and Gateway say that lead times for the 800MHz Pentium III chip are down from as many as 30 days in January to eight to 10 days now. The chip, they say, is ingreater supply now than in previous weeks. With the wait for AMD's 800MHz Athlon now only three to five days from Gateway, some customers have turned to that option. This newfound competition is shaping up to be Intel's biggest challenges for 2000, besides getting its three new chips out the door. It's not a one-horse race anymore when it comes to consumers evaluating a new PC. AMD will be in town as well. The company, which launched its 850MHz Athlon last Friday, will be meeting with developers and the press to discuss the future of its Athlon chip. The Athlon is also well along on the path to 1GHz. AMD has demonstrated a 1.1GHz version of the chip. dailynews.yahoo.com Salude - Norman$