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To: Scumbria who wrote (5440)	8/17/2000 5:21:41 PM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Any guesses what that is all about? Scumbria Guesses.... Remember that.... I know what happened in August 1999, when intel went from PIII 600MHZ with no on-die cache to on-die. activewin.com Everyone pretty much knew exactly how much better on-die cache was going to be over the non-die cache chips, so sales of the previous version, dried up prematurely just prior to launch. Right at launch, most people were talking about how nobody wanted "the old Katmai stuff", since any minute the new stuff was going to be available. Talk was at the time, that intel was going to "Make sure that doesn't happen again". Since the article states that the "given frequency" of the PIII is the 200MHz FSB model, and the P4 is new in itself, I BELIEVE that intel does not want it's current PIII sales to suddenly dry up, prior to the next step. I would guess though that some people here will have a "different" opinion. :-) SemiconEng