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To: Joey Smith who wrote (106053)	7/22/2000 12:14:48 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joey, RE:"The long-awaited Pentium 4 launch will proceed as planned later this year, according to sources, beginning with limited volumes of a high-performance, dual-memory-channel device for workstations and high-end PCs. A lower-priced single-channel version is set to follow for the mainstream desktop segment. However, development of the follow-on version was proceeding slowly, sources said, and even if on schedule would have arrived more than six months after AMD's pace-setting Athlons." --- It appears Intel may well launch Willy this year but in low volume and in a niche environment. So they need to juice up Coppermine. OK... Sounds like Intel has come to the realization that Rambus has Willy shackled. RE:"The 1.4-GHz Pentium III processor can use double-data-rate SDRAM to compete against Athlon desktops and notebooks using the same high-speed memory. But because Intel's agreement with Rambus Inc. to promote Direct Rambus DRAM contractually bars it from making its own DDR-enabled chipsets, Intel will depend on third-party vendors Acer Laboratories, Micron Technology, Silicon Integrated Systems, and Via Technologies to supply the core-logic devices --- And Intel can't make a DDR chipset for Willy because Rambus will sue them? Do I have this correct? Or is it just a DDR chipset for Coppermine? Rambus=bubonic plague of semis...?