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To: jim kelley who wrote (48599)	8/1/2000 8:22:39 AM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim Kelley, I see that Carl has already replied to your comments on my last post. No doubt he did so in an effort to circumvent the possibility of my mom and pop who don't know their butt from an excellon drill tape efforts at formulating a rebuttal. Nevertheless, as Regional VP of the Joint Unrestrained Mom & Pop Conspiracy Against INTC Forced Ugly DRAM, a/k/a Jump Cat Fud, I am duty bound to offer my bird brained sur-reply: If you believe all these assertions regarding the superiority of the DRDRAM technology, and I believe you do, then how do you explain DDR's having grabbed the graphics board market from Concurrent DRDRAM? Are all these boards unstable? Do they create instability on the millions of motherboards on which they are installed? Wouldn't the Overclockers and techies be dogging their every DDR SGRAM release as the pile of junk you say they are? I don't know where you obtained these arguments, but even if its DRAMVIEW's or INTC's spin on things, what could it hurt to check under the hood? Kick the tires? Take a test drive? For instance, is it really true that INTC's recent decisions are driven by AMD and VIA market share pressures? The main reason Intel announced an Sdram version of Willamette for the second half of 01 is to cut off AMD and VIA as well as the other chipset companies. As you recall VIA has been thumbing its nose and saying that it will build a DDR chipset for the P4 without a license. AMD has been touting DDR and Intel is intent on denying them any distinction in the market place. Well if SDRAM/DDR is really junk, why would INTC be dumb enough to consider joining VIA and AMD in supporting it? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to go there merry way with a DRDRAM only policy and let VIA/AMD flounder on the failure of this allegedly second rate technology? How can you turn this into "cutting off" their competitors? Isn't imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Are they planning to let their customers have the SDRAM/DDR they are clamoring for simply to let them collapse in a heap of molten CMOS before issuing a big "I told you so!" press release? I frankly don't see it. INTC has made a Big Companies, Big Error and they are taking another bite of crow, as they have been doing since last October. And Big Companies do not eat Crow when there is tasty pork to be had. :8) 0\|0