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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (6185)	8/22/2000 7:30:00 PM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Pravin, the CNet "170" article is from back in June. Kanellos article from today is the "217" You might want to apologize to Ian...CNet appears to have done nothing wrong... in early June they were guided by analysts to believe it was 170 (which even Kumar thought was too big). Today's IDF sources put the size at a whopping 217. Kanellos dutifully reported it. Doug p.s. Note the "Intel will not confirm the size" line from Kanellos' updated article. LOL! You can bet they would confirm it was smaller than 217 if they could! --snip-- Intel chip will be bigger, more expensive to make By Ian Fried Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 2, 2000, 11:45 a.m. PT Intel's upcoming Willamette processor eventually will reach speeds beyond 2 GHz, but the size of the chip is raising questions about how much it will cost to make. Willamette, Intel's next-generation desktop processor expected to emerge later this year, will debut at 170 square millimeters, according to estimates from analysts. At that size, it will be 60 percent larger than today's Pentium III. While the larger size will allow Intel to pack more transistors onto the chip and add more features, it also means fewer chips can be produced out of a single wafer, which raises Intel's costs. ... --snip-- Intel super-sizes Pentium 4 chip By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com August 22, 2000, 12:20 p.m. PT SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel's upcoming Pentium 4 will be more than twice as big as the Pentium III and approximately 28 percent bigger than anticipated, an increase that will boost Intel's manufacturing cost and limit the number of chips produced. The Pentium 4 will measure 217 square millimeters, according to several sources at the Intel Developer Forum, which began today in San Jose, Calif. The current Pentium III and Celeron chips, by contrast, take up about 100 square millimeters. Analysts earlier predicted the chip would measure 170 square millimeters. Intel representatives would not confirm the size of the new chip.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (6185)	8/22/2000 7:39:58 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Foster "server" delayed agian!! Does NOT use DDR!? The register strikes again. Can this be true? Basically Intel has no DDR server until Q3 2001. Unbelievable. Foster is now only workstation. How will they stop Mustang? BUY! BUY! BUY! theregister.co.uk Intel confirms Xeon shortages By: Mike Magee Posted: 22/08/2000 at 22:46 GMT The VP and general manager of Intel's enterprise platform group today confirmed tightness in supply of Xeon 700MHz microprocessors. Earlier this week, we reported that Compaq kit was in short supply because of the tightness. And Fister also disclosed others details of Intel's future roadmap plans, confirming stories we wrote earlier this year. Fister said of the 700MHz Xeon shortage, "capacity is tight" but added that when such shortages occurred, chips were given to firms, such as Compaq and Dell, depending on their forward forecasts. He said that the Xeon family will continue with Gallatin, a shrunk .13 micron version, while its 82870 chipset will support McKinley, a 64-bit processor, and Gallatin, as well as other "future" processors. Further, the 82870 will also support synchronous memory, double data rate memory, and Rambus, simultaneously, he said. While Intel said at its spring developer forum that Foster, the Pentium 4's grown up server brother, would support DDR, he said that the 860 chipset for the microprocessor, will now support Rambus memory, again as revealed here. But there's one codename we hadn't come across before, and that is Plumas. This vague chipset is for dual processing servers, although of which flavour, Fister did not say. Foster, meanwhile, seems to have developed that persistent Intel infection called "lateness". Roadmaps leaked to The Reg originally suggested Foster processors would appear in Q1. This will happen for workstation flavours of the microprocessor, but multiprocessing (MP) four way and eight way Fosters won't now happen until quarter three of next year and will be a "pilot release". Dual processor parts, based on the ServerWorks chipset, won't be introduced until Q2 of next year. ®