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To: pompsander who wrote (42490)	5/18/2000 1:05:00 PM
From: Ian Anderson	Respond to of 93625

Of course part of the reason to do a Plug-Fest is to convince the DRAM manufacturers of the readiness of the OEMs new designs. It's a convincing argument when you see 10 or 12 new machines from HP, DELL etc, which are at the end of the lab prototype stage, and about to go to production prototype. Interestingly for large manufacturers the time from starting to build production prototypes to first shipping is about 4 months, which gives the DRAM manufacturers time to switch wafer starts. Now of course it would be interesting if the DDR summit manages to find the same number of designs to show, but my guess is they won't

To: pompsander who wrote (42490)	5/18/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Pomp, It looks like you were correct. This is going to take a wallet. I do not think that the industry wants INTEL to "eat scrap and die" as BILOW suggests. It would be foolhardy of them to sabotage INTEL and ridiculous to let "the tail wag the dog" as far as dictating future technologies. The industry may pull this same tactic on AMD when it needs DDR for its platforms later this year. BILOW self congratulations are premature. This is about money. DELL may be the beneficiary of this since they apparently have already negotiated their supplies with Samsung.