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To: kash johal who wrote (93911)	2/17/2000 5:58:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571806

Kash, a few more comments, and that's it for me: <I suspect that timna performance will suck due to last minute descision to go with sdram rather than rdram.> Performance is not the name of the game for Timna. Cost is. Although I'd love to see how well Timna will run with native RDRAM, I think Intel has to go with SDRAM for the meantime until RDRAM prices fall. Performance should still be pretty good, better than Coppermine-128 on 810e, because latency will still be lower going through an RDRAM-to-SDRAM translator than going through a chipset. And don't forget about the advantages of having the graphics integrated on the processor as well. <Cumine 128 or cumine 256 doesn't stand a chance with AThlon select let alon the new mustang chips.> Even Coppermine-256 will have a smaller die size than Spitfire. Combine that with much higher volumes, and Intel has the option of lowering prices like crazy if necessary. Also, I suspect Timna will quickly replace the entire Celeron line. And Spitfire cannot compete against Timna. Most likely, Spitfire will compete against the lower-end Coppermine-256 (i.e. the FC-PGA Socketmines running at 500 and 550 MHz, which are surprisingly in high demand). Makes me wonder where Coppermine-128 will fit in. <And thunderbird may win some sockets agains cascades in the server space. Assuming intel does actually deliver cascades???> And assuming that AMD actually delivers multiprocessor chipsets. Dang, that dual-processor chipset is taking how long now? Tenchusatsu