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To: Dan3 who wrote (106710)	4/18/2000 9:12:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1577025

Intel recalls dodgy Cape Cod mobos theregister.co.uk I was tempted to taunt the Rambus weenies with this one, but maybe we should be kind to them, Rambus is really a great ally for AMD against Intel. Just a wisp of a story here, quoted in full: Intel has confirmed to The Register that all its jinxed CC820 motherboards are now being recalled for 'reworking'. A hardware modification was identified at the end of last month that seems to fix a tendency for the mobo to hang or fail to boot. As we predicted here earlier this week, a product recall is now in progress. Chipzilla has also confirmed that a new stepping of the Memory Translator Hub (MTH) is being worked on which will restore some of the performance lost in allowing cheaper SDRAM to be used with the i820 chipset originally designed solely for the much more expensive Rambus memory. © I've been assured repeatedly that there's no problem with the 820 and 840, though. It's all ugly rumors from people defrauding RMBS investors. Also from the Register today, in case it wasn't noted here: AMD takes axe to Athlon prices theregister.co.uk Further, although Thunderbird is now ready, AMD will delay the Spitfire to coincide with the release of Thunderbird, with the date, now, probably June. Thunderbirds will ship with DDR cache, by the end of that month. The pricing of AMD's 700MHz Athlon is particularly interesting, because the firm is positioning it against Intel Celeron microprocessors. These Intel processors are, effectively, cut-down versions of Coppermine chips. But, as we noted several days back, Intel has shortages of Coppermine processors, with many of its customers being told that availability will be patchy, at best, until June or July. It now seems that the giant at the top of the beanstalk is in danger of Jack stealing the goose that lays the golden eggs. © DDR cache on T-bird? That story sounds a little garbled. One interesting bit I recall from a while back was that AMD was qualifying the Dresden line with 4mbit static RAM chips as well as Athlon parts, maybe they mean DDR SRAM or something. Cheers, Dan.