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To: ptanner who wrote (124622)	9/23/2000 9:06:22 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574709

PT, re: Micron, some recent, contradictory news. Micron taps Lucent to make Samurai chips techweb.com But, from the end of quote.bloomberg.com Micron announced a DDR chipset early this year, but said it would only start production of it if there were no other suppliers. Now that Via and Acer Labs have announced plans, Micron will scrap its DDR chipset. ``We don't want to compete with Via and Acer, who are our partners,'' Sadler said. They still list themselves for DDR chipsets in micronsemi.com . I was surprised a few months back to learn that Micron offered a PC with their own chipset in an early PII system, it was called Samurai even. See Message 13623310, from this thread. I don't think the Micron PC operation is big enough to support a custom chipset, though. Oddly enough, I'm still running a Micron PPro system, though the pieces are actually scattered among three PC's now. Micron PCs used to have a certain techie cachet, I don't know if that's really true anymore. Cheers, Dan.

To: ptanner who wrote (124622)	9/23/2000 9:06:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574709

This hadn't occurred to me... as I type this on my aging Micron PC. This would be a nice way for Micron to push DDR. Too bad their reference chipset wasn't an Athlon based one so they could have the option of another product that is less of a commodity (RAM vs chipset) or could have licensed/sold the DDR chipset. PT, A lot of expansion of MU and the semi industry in Boise. ted