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To: Scumbria who wrote (105993)	4/15/2000 6:28:00 PM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574098

Scumbria, You wrote "I believe that it was designed using sound principles, and will likely scale well to high frequencies." I have never doubted that. My point is that Willy does not have a 100% chance of eventually surpassing Mustang in Ghz. Mike

To: Scumbria who wrote (105993)	4/15/2000 10:50:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1574098

Scumbria, Besides, the idiot management at Intel has chosen to tie Willy to an expensive DRAM type, which will reduce it's ability to compete. I am not sure the word tie is correct. There is Willy on the processor road map, and there is a chipset supporting Willy parallel to it. But it doesn't mean someone (even Intel) can't make chipsets supporting DDR. Intel is going to have DDR chipset for Foster, and I don't see anything (other than internal politics) stopping them from migrating it to Willy, or even developing a chipset from scratch. I am not sure if the timing will can be coordinated. But the risks are higher. Coppermine could run in BX, 810 motherboards, but Willy will be beached without a proper chipset. If Intel put all their eggs in 1 basket, the chances are, one link in the chain will break, and as a result, we will all become very rich. (which we may even if Intel gets it's act together) Joe