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To: Scumbria who wrote (4737)	8/12/2000 12:16:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, Re: Pentium 4-originally expected to debut in the third quarter-is being delayed until adequate supplies of the Tehama chipset and Direct Rambus DRAM are available. Apparently Intel is having some problems with their boy Willy. It could be the chipset as well, that is the chipset was not ready, while Willy was. A similar thing happened to AMD. The socket chips were ready, but the supplies of the chipsets took a while to arrive. Joe

To: Scumbria who wrote (4737)	8/12/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Sounds like a bunch of baloney. If the chipset was ready to be manufactured, there is no reason why Intel could not manufacture adequate quantities for a low volume PIV launch. The same is true for the DRDRAM supply. Apparently Intel is having some problems with their boy Willy. Scumbria Or maybe..... This "Financial Analyst" is wrong. Did anybody ever think of that one? SemiconEng

To: Scumbria who wrote (4737)	8/12/2000 3:01:03 PM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, SemiconEng wrote "..... intel decided to wait for the chipsets, and go back to it's old ways, of stockpiling microprocessor chips in the warehouse prior to launch" The painful implication of this is that the September launch date was intended to be another paper launch. So Scumbria, please consider this possibility. A September P4 launch might have another paper launch that gets horrible press yet again. A mid to late October launch makes the launch real with at least 50K-100K machines boxed up ready to ship out on launch day. On another note, I can't wait to see benchmarks from production P4 systems. If the 20%-25% IPC penalty people have been talking about is real, P4 may never beat Mustang on performance. The sole exception would be on carefully hand constructed assembler code that is free from branches. I can't wait for Intel to release benchmarks that rely on this<G>. Mike