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To: isaac who wrote (162042)	10/11/2000 7:13:29 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 176387

isaac, <"Intel, which was expected to launch Pentium 4 this month, is now expected to begin shipping the chip at 1.4GHz and higher speeds late next month."> The production rate of the Pentium 4 has been estimated at 70,000 per week elsewhere. Intel has promised "100's of thousands in Y2000." Lesley Gwynnap of the MP Report says Intel can only make 1/3 as many P4's per wafer of Silicon as P3's, so therefore they will not move much production over to P4 until their next semiconductor process is ready in mid 2001. Based on all the above, CNet published a story today called, Pentium 4 won't dominate Intel sales until 2002. It is at yahoo.cnet.com Still another problem for Pentium 4 is RDRAM. Until Q2'2001, all Pentium 4 systems will have to abe equipped with TWO RDRAM modules, which currently cost about $240 per 128M module, or $480 just for memory. The motherboards for Pentium 4 will also be extremely expensive. They need a special power connector just for the CPU, which dissipates 80W (1/3 more than the worst AMD processor ever). Finally, the P4 was designed for one thing, highest MHz rating and many people feel that a 1.5 GHz P4 will be equivalent in speed to the 1.13 GHz P3 which was cancelled, errr, delayed. Petz