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To: Tony Viola who wrote (105591)	7/13/2000 11:08:17 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "This is weird. Intel canceled release of the 800 MHz Cascades processor last week. Customers said it didn't provide enough increase over the 700 MHz one to warrant a new speed bump server development. Now IBM announces what looks like an 800 MHz Cascades based server. Did IBM get an exclusive to buy all that were made anyway?" Tony, they're 256K Xeons. EP

To: Tony Viola who wrote (105591)	7/13/2000 12:48:24 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "Did IBM get an exclusive to buy all that were made anyway? " I'm not clear whether this uses a 256K or 2 Meg L2 cache. It would indeed be interesting if IBM requested - and Intel delivered - special 2 MEg L2 cache 800 MHz Xeons just for IBM. Compaq would love that ! Paul

To: Tony Viola who wrote (105591)	7/13/2000 1:35:54 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony and all, re: 800 MHz Cascades Xeon? Yeah, that's IBM Netfinity 6000R announcement is very curious, given that Intel reportedly cancelled the 800 MHz Cascades Xeon. Over on IBM's web site, however, it seems the 800 MHz Netfinity server will indeed use Cascades. Click on this link: pc.ibm.com and look at the Acrobat document entitled "Spec sheet." On page 2 of the PDF doc, the table mentions a future model "TBD" with an 800 MHz Xeon, 2M of L2 cache. Hopefully we'll get the story straightened out soon. At least this wasn't a 256K Coppermine being used in a 4-way SMP configuration. That would be stupid, to say the least, if it's even possible. Tenchusatsu