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To: milo_morai who wrote (109534)	5/6/2000 2:04:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575146

Re: Micron to support AMD chip Wow. Klein declined to comment on HotRail's market exit, but sources said high-performance Athlon servers could connect any number of processors to an equal number of Samurai chipsets. The Athlon architecture is able to use individual 266-MHz processor bus lines, each of which talks to its own chipset, as opposed to Intel's architecture, which uses a shared processor-bus line. Klein refrained from setting a timetable for mass marketing of the Samurai. "We're currently working fast and furiously on an Athlon DDR chipset solution," he said. "We'll be a player in the Athlon market." While Micron is eyeing opportunities in the Athlon arena, the company's foundry partner hopes to tie the Samurai to Intel's Pentium III, according to sources. That could pose a threat to the chip giant, which has steadfastly refused to develop a DDR-enabled chipset for its high-end processor. According to observers, a maverick Pentium III chipset supplier could undermine Intel's efforts to jump-start support for Direct RDRAM, and would open a second market front against the company, which already is bracing for rival lower-end chipsets that support DDR SDRAM from Taiwanese IC makers Acer, SiS, and Via. Thanks for the good news, Milo! Regards, Dan

To: milo_morai who wrote (109534)	5/6/2000 2:26:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575146

milo, <Micron to support AMD chip > GREAT NEWS! Thanks for posting. <That strategy did an about-face last week, when Klein said Micron is upbeat about the Samurai's ability to generate appreciable merchant-market sales by supporting the Athlon desktop processor. "We see a high volume for an Athlon DDR chipset," he said. "Our chipset road map includes Athlon in a big way."> This is serious kick-butt stuff. Takes away a lot of the disappointment from other motherboard/chipset problems. THIS IS HUUUUUUUUGE! Cheers to the longs, Chuck

To: milo_morai who wrote (109534)	5/7/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575146

Milo, Re: Micron to support AMD chip I was speculating about this about a month ago: #reply-13384855. This news really made my weekend. It definitely made up for some disappointments from HotRail and Via. Some points I liked: That strategy did an about-face last week, when Klein said Micron is upbeat about the Samurai's ability to generate appreciable merchant-market sales by supporting the Athlon desktop processor. "We see a high volume for an Athlon DDR chipset," he said. "Our chipset road map includes Athlon in a big way".... ....Asked why Micron was allying itself with AMD, Klein replied, "The only reason is that AMD was extremely interested and wanted us to provide the Samurai chipset for Athlon. Intel didn't want to discuss our help with Samurai." Joe