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To: andy kelly who wrote (113954)	10/17/2000 3:01:13 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Andy, RE:'Since you work with chip sets, could I ask you a question. I have been wondering why, with so much riding on a successful launch of P4, Intel did not design two different chip sets for it." ___ This shows tremendous arrogance on Intels part...and stupidity. I'm not Tench, obviously, but Intel signed an agreement with Rambus to promote Rambus as it's "favored" memory. Intel managent obviously thought they didn't need a DDR or SDRAM chipset for Willamette. I also still think a lot of these decisions were made with cornering the market and profit in mind rather than customers wants and needs. Intel has lose tremendous credibility at setting standards because of this. Also, Intel has a history of NOT adopting other parties technologies and tying themselves up. Apples firewire being one, Intel opting for USB-1 and USB-2. They always were the leader. For some strange reason they were bamboozled by Rambus...hummm Jim

To: andy kelly who wrote (113954)	10/17/2000 3:28:18 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Andy, <I have been wondering why, with so much riding on a successful launch of P4, Intel did not design two different chip sets for it.> I think you said it best, that it would have been too expensive to implement. Yeah, Intel is a multi-billion dollar corporation, but up until recently, Intel was also big on cost-cutting and becoming a more efficiently-run company. Besides, more chipsets will be available for the Pentium 4 in 2001. Intel is more concerned about the long-term anyway, so the initial lack of chipset choices isn't such a big deal. Tenchusatsu