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To: Dan3 who wrote (122543)	8/21/2000 11:20:42 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1578263

Dan Intel, IMHO, would be better off delaying P4 to January than training the market discount its performance 10 to 20% compared to Pentium 3 and AMD chips. If you recall, when Celeron was released the first time, it was a dog. But it did not hurt the subsequent Mendocino from being very successful, driving all but AMD out of CPU business, and causing AMD huge losses. If my assumption that Willy-479 will have onboard Northbridge are correct, the onboard Northbridge will cut the performance penalty substantially. The second iteration of the CPU may have some new tricks to improve performance, or to improve clock speed scalability, and we may end up with a chip that has the same clock for clock performance as Piii and Athlon. So again we may be down to MHz sells (or wins) without any "buts". Joe PS: The rumors that Willy-479 will be single processor only CPU makes it more likely that it will have on-board Northbridge. I am still completely puzzled about Foster. Foster has to have multiprocessing capabilities. I wonder if it is only Willy-2 (or Willy-479) that will be single-processor only, and Willy-1 and Foster will be multiprocessor capable.