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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (23247)	12/23/2000 1:13:12 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: P3 DDR motherboard. It figures. AMDs infrastructure is so slow it's sad. Via is rather more short sighted and opportunistic than most of us wish. But adding 266MHZ memory to a chip with a 133MHZ FSB doesn't do much for it (proof courtesy of Rambus) and this does make the rambus only P4 look too temporary to be a safe buy - it makes it clear that Intel systems are also moving to DDR. That said it's still disappointing to see AMD co-developed DDR technology first appearing from VIA as an Intel product instead of an AMD one. VIA's foot dragging has brought SiS and ALi back into the limelight in the chipset business. Dan

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (23247)	12/23/2000 10:25:35 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Jim, That Socket 370 DDR board is going to work great. Especially with 66 MHz Celeron. NOT. Joe

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (23247)	12/23/2000 2:00:47 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim - RE: [AMDs infrastructure is so slow it's sad.] It is sad, isn't it. What's even more pathetic is that similar searches of other MB sites (Asus, etc) will turn up lower-end Socket 370 offerings from SIS and ALI that AMD has been "promised" for months. I guess AMD will never learn that they cannot thrive on what left-overs Intel and VIA agree to ration out to them. VIA has high hopes of capturing a significant portion of the low and medium performance market segment. One would have to assume that they are well on their way to reaching these goals. There is plenty of cheap infrastructure to run their products on and the smaller process technology is about to help their CPU business production, cost, and performance wise. And would anyone care to take bets on whether we are still fretting with these infrastructure problems next Christmas?!?!?!? Of course we will be! I just can't understand why AMD has to be continually smacked in the face with this infrastructure 2x4. Maybe at this point VIA is a likely candidate to buy AMD out?? Buckwheat