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To: Petz who wrote (18804)	11/13/2000 1:52:27 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, <if large cache processors are such a hot ticket, how come Intel is stuck at 700 MHz -- and sells many more 800, 900 and 1000 MHz Xeons with 256K cache?> Hmmm, you got me there. Cascades is targeted toward 4-way and 8-way SMP servers. That market is much more conservative than the 2-way SMP market, which is why Intel is more aggressive with speed grades on non-Cascades Xeon. Still, Intel was having trouble meeting demand for Cascades even at 700 MHz. Most likely this was due to manufacturing capacity (making one Cascades means sacrificing four or five potential Coppermines). Likewise, AMD probably decided that Mustang would severely impact production of everything else, so they dropped it and are now pinning their hopes of 2-way SMP penetration with small-cache Palomino. Tenchusatsu