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To: Scot who wrote (94479)	2/21/2000 11:32:00 AM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1571808

firingsquad.com Here's a little Timna info...don't know if this has been discussed: During the second half of 2000, Intel plans to release Celerons in excess of 700MHz with the 810E chipset and 815. Also during the second half of 2000, Intel plans to release their next low-cost processor, codenamed "Timna." Designed by Intel engineers in Haifa, Israel, Timna is named after a national park in that country. To clarify, Timna is not a low-cost version of Willamette; it's based on the same P6 core as Intel's Pentium III and Celeron processors. Its key feature will be integration, offering an integrated L2 cache, (size undisclosed) memory controller, and graphics controller; Timna is aimed at sub -$600 PC's. Yu briefly demonstrated a Timna processor during his presentation, but didn't offer details on clock speed. The latest reports however predict it to launch in September at a clock speed of 667MHz. Rambus inside? One interesting aspect of Timna is memory support, before the official announcement it was believed that Timna would support RDRAM. Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Desktop Products Group later clarified that RDRAM wasn't used because of supply issues. Sometime during 2001, an RDRAM version will be released under a different brand name. The interesting aspect of this is that later during the week it was revealed that Timna contained a Rambus interface that could conceivably connect to Direct RDRAM memory. However, Intel decided to disable this interface with no option to enable it, even if an OEM desired to use it. Therefore, Timna will support SDRAM via a memory translator hub. If you recall our ASUS P3C2000 review, our tests with the memory translator hub (MTH) and the 820 chipset revealed a significant performance hit. Hopefully Intel will improve the MTH's performance between now and Timna's release.