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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (124752)	9/26/2000 12:14:33 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574845

Ted, alternative chipsets from Intel (mainly the so-called "brookdale) are allegedly 9 months away, and are due out with the new "northwood" processor which sprouts 50 extra pins. This may also coincide with the .13um shrink, it all gets pretty complicated. Dan, Thanks for the links...I am bookmarking. Everyone talks of producing the P4 in volume Q4 with the caveat...so long as there is sufficient RDRAM. But most articles and posters agree that there will not be insufficient RDRAM for several reasons in Q4. Forgetting Intel's recent misfires and vapor launches for the moment, do you really think that Intel would produce in volume a chip they can not sell? I can understand t.c.doug's concern here. Maybe 6 months Intel would have tried to finesse a P4 vapor launch but I don't they will now. Their butt is in a sling right now and they can't afford any false moves. Secondly, and maybe I should have asked this first, do we know what volume is for the P4? If volume (or maybe I should say infrastructure supported volume) is less than than 50k, its know big deal. But if volume is 500k or 1 million chips, then there's a big problem. Thirdly, are we sure that DDR chipsets will not be available until Q3, 2001? I know Intel is dependent on Via, like AMD, so it sounds right that it will take them til Q3 to produce chipsets in volume. Any comments? Thanks. Thanks again for the links. And of course this is all n aside to how well to the P4's performance will compare to the Athlon. ted Edit. Just read a post from Ten; apparently Intel can make its own DDR chipsets and is not dependent on Via. Then DDR chipsets may be on their way much sooner they we thought.