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To: chic_hearne who wrote (110222)	9/19/2000 10:38:15 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Chic, servers from the big 4 take months, maybe even over a year to develop around a new server chip. 1. Emotional, political battle at the OEM to even look at the new chip. 2. Eval testing of the new chip. 3. Chipset and mobo development in parallel, probably at a 3rd party vendor. 4. Build some protos. 5. Debug. 6. Design verify against Windows, Linux, Unix and hundreds of applications. 7. Regression test with all the above. 8. Build pilots. etc. Takes at least a year from good engineering samples, and errata book in OEM's hands, before server product will be sold. Bear in mind this is for a new architecture chip. A faster PIII, much easier. Foster based will be like new, of the one year type schedule. Tony