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To: blake_paterson who wrote (42535)	5/20/2000 9:04:00 AM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Armador = the alleged name of the beast Pentium IV auch mit SDRAMs? pcwelt.de TRANSLATION (w/o map) Pentium IV also with SDRAMs? Intels Pentium IV - code name Willamette - is to support officially only RAM bus memory. it will not give a chip record for the Pentium to IV, which gets along with SDRAMs according to Intel. In a secret strategy paper however a chip record with the code name Armador emerges, which is meant both for 133 mc/s fast SDRAM and for the fire-new DDR(Double DATA advice e) memory type. Intel has good reasons to conceal the existence of Armador: With the argument, which Pentium IV will give it only in connection with RAM bus, sets to Intel the motherboards -, memory -, and PC manufacturers under printing, in order to push the expensive and technically disputed memory technology through on the market. At the same time the processor giant wants a Hintertuerchen to obviously keep itself open, should not the strategy not to come up. Because if for the premiere of the Pentium IV RAM bus memory does not approximate clearly the prices of SDRAM modules, Intel has a problem. PC manufacturer then to do with difficulty to be able to offer Pentium IV computers for competitive prices - and set possibly strengthened on alternative platforms.