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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (61362)	11/16/2000 7:34:35 PM
From: Estephen	Respond to of 93625

Intel Says Pentium 4 on Sale Monday, Quick Speed Ramp Planned By Cesca Antonelli Santa Clara, California, Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp. said the Pentium 4 processor will hit shelves Monday, as the world's biggest computer-chip maker offers the latest version of its best-selling product. Spokesman Tom Beermann confirmed the date and declined to comment on the chip's speed or price. Intel has said Pentium 4 will start at 1.4 gigahertz. That would be quick enough to regain the crown for the fastest processors from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Intel's future sales depend heavily on new chips like the Pentium 4 coming out this year and next, analysts have said. The company has touted the Pentium 4's new design, saying it handles complex graphics more easily and has added features for video and security. Executives expect the chip to run at 2GHz by the third quarter of next year. Competition has gotten tougher. AMD beat Intel to the introduction of an 850-megahertz chip in February and won again at the 1GHz mark. Its flagship Athlon processors now operate as fast as 1.2GHz, quicker than Intel's top 1GHz Pentium III. Itanium, Intel's offering for high-end servers that run Web sites and networks, is due for pilot production by year's end with volume shipments starting next year. The shares of Santa Clara, California-based Intel rose 56 cents to $41.50. They're little changed this year. AMD rose 19 cents to $21.94, and has added 52 percent in 2000.

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (61362)	11/16/2000 7:57:39 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

You are definitely wrong! How you reach these fallacious conclusions I can only imagine. The P4 is a big winner! There will be benchmarks available Monday or Tuesday at the Intel website and product will also be immediately available. I'm just back from COMDEX and I saw ~ 90 Pentium 4 running at 1.4 to 1.5 GHZ running applications optimized for the P4. The graphics and applications were head and shoulders above any other platforms at the show including Athlon DDR platforms. By the way, IWILL has no customers for its MOBO and AMD had a poor demo of a Micron PC 760 Athlon running Autocad scripts at 1.2 GHZ with DDR. The P4 is much better than anything that AMD could show. VIA had no 760 platforms and will not have any. VIA claims the 760 will have a short life and be replaced by their own chipset.

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (61362)	11/17/2000 10:43:49 AM
From: SBHX	Respond to of 93625

Like that premature PIII-850 launch? Low # of units seems the norm these days --- what in the past used to be pre-production prototype samples now become early 'production' units. Sometimes, they are earllier spins and they run warmer. Everyone is doing it. It's not a given that initial DDR will be cheaper than RDRAM, the 5.5ns(?) ddr used by the graphics guys (look at the new 64MB graphics accelerators from nvidia and ati) were apparently very expensive relative to sdr. Some (non-memory vendor) ddr supporters were extrapolating that with the similarities between sdr and ddr, ddr will follow the same life-cycle prices and hence also undergo this 'bust' phase of the sdr that makes them so cheap. Either way, rmbs should have a decent shot at royalties. aside : I don't know if it's windows Me, but since I got my new notebook with windows Me, 192MB of ram still gives me a 70MB swap file, this is very irritating, I'll have to try 256MB to see if the swap-to-disk goes away. Anyone knows why? SbH