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To: Robert Scott Diver who wrote (6249)	3/20/2000 3:50:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 8218

Robert, that article mentions 2 GHz, saying at the start of it that it's not far away. You have to read all the way through to get the truth at the end: Power4 is on schedule to ship in the second half of next year in IBM?s RS/6000 Unix servers and its AS/400 servers for small and medium-size businesses running Unix or Linux. Early versions of the chip have their processor cores running at 1GHz each. However, analysts expect the chip to debut at 1.1GHz and scale to 2.0GHz on a 0.13-micron process. Not 2 GHz either, 1.1 to start and then scaling with the 0.13 process to 2 GHz. Why does IBM persist in talking about their technology innovations when they're still so far down the road, compared with everyone else. Some kind of complex? Also, this: The Power4 was designed as a server chip for very expensive hardware. But IBM executives say the new line might ultimately have a greater impact on personal computing than recently announced 1GHz desktop PC chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp., which last week announced their new entries Article says the IBM chips are for servers. How does that affect me more than Intel's or AMD's chips? Tony