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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (14970)	10/18/2000 9:47:43 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 275872

AMD will release 266 MHZ FSB Athlon & chipset 4Q00

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (14970)	10/18/2000 10:20:49 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 275872

I'll be the Taiwan motherboard makers are rollin' out the red carpet for the "IRS of the tech industry". LOL Rambus Opens Office In Taiwan [By: Rajeev Kadam on 10/17/00 at 10:16 pm PST - courtesy Anandtech Rambus Inc. today announced the opening of its office in Taipei, Taiwan. The office will provide direct sales, marketing and engineering support for Rambus technology in local consumer, communication and computer markets. "China is one of the world's fastest growing economies, and it is essential that we have a strong presence in Taiwan, the technology center of the greater China region," said Dave Mooring, President of Rambus Inc. "This is consistent with Rambus' strategy of providing system solutions to our global customers and partners using our leading edge high bandwidth chip connections technology." Mr. Joseph Lin, a native of Taiwan, joins Rambus as the Director of Marketing and Applications. Mr. Lin brings with him over 14 years of industry experience, including hardware design and field application engineering positions at Texas Instruments and OAK Technologies, and sales and marketing positions at National Semiconductor and Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Lin will interface with Taiwanese PC OEMs, chipset suppliers, Semiconductor companies and component manufacturers directly supporting a local Rambus infrastructure, modeled after the US infrastructure already in place. "The Rambus Taiwan office is central to building successful partnerships with the consumer, communication, computer OEMs and component manufacturers. As Rambus' technology is adopted and implemented into new systems, a local office is of increasing importance to support the growing infrastructure," said Joseph Lin, Director of Marketing and Applications, Rambus Taiwan

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (14970)	10/19/2000 12:45:59 AM
From: porn_start878	Respond to of 275872

. We'll probably have all the following desktop chipsets ready and ramped by Q2 worst case It's already late, so Q2 will be damn too late. But I agree it could improve a lot, K6 finaly got support and it wasn't such a competitive chip. If there are signs of this support finally comming, the multitude of new chipset is clearly of of the strongest. It put competition in the chipset side and competition means lower prices, lower prices means cheaper and fewer motherboards. The only potential problem I see for desktop is after Athlon hits 1.667GHz. That's 12.5 * 133MHz, and 12.5 is the max multiplier for the Athlon right now. I don't know if they will up the fsb speed again or if they can remap the lower multipliers like the K6-2's 2x = 6x. If they have to change fsb we'll have to go through the same crap of ramping a new chipset It's not really an issue, I'll be extremely surprised if the Mustang hits 1666 MHz on the current .18 mu copper process. Anyway, they do DDR memory for the graphic cards running at nearly 250 MHz DDR... AMD could play with unusual bus speed like they did with the k6 (4x95 = 380MHz) and easily increase the bus to 150MHz (only a 12% bus overclock)... that is 1875MHz, way above Athlon's capacity even at .13mu (not way above at .13 but still). Laptop and multi-way chipsets I'm not so sure about. I know Ali is working on one for laptops. Is it the same one listed above or is it a special low-powered version? The AliMagik currently support PowerNow! so is labtop ready. But expect AMD to do a Mobile version of it's 760. Hope the comdex enlighten us... Max