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To: Tony Viola who wrote (136295)	5/29/2001 6:41:54 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "more AMD infrastructure problems. Check this out: VIA's streak of bad luck doesn't seem to have ended yet. " This is a good reason why many MotherBoard manufacturers are revving up their Pentium III (Tualatin) and Pentium 4 efforts - and dropping AMD-based development. theinquirer.net DDR development 'scrapped' Victory for Chipzilla, Moloch of Memory? By Andrew Thomas, 23 May 2001 15.01 BST AS WE HINTED several weeks ago, here, all is not well in DDR land. Now hardware site OCWorkbench claims that Taiwanese mobo makers including Asus, Gigabyte and MSI are stopping work on DDR mobos. The claim is that sales of DDR boards are poor and, combined with the plummeting prices of Pentium 4 processors, sales of Rambus/P4 systems are climbing rapidly while DDR is in the doldrums. With PC133 SDRAM mobos now mainstream, high end DDR boards are being squeezed out of the market, says OCW. With DDR systems only offering a 10 per cent performance boost over standard SDRAM, most manufacturers are now concentrating on PC133 Socket 478 mobos. Like we said, don't flame us, and like OCWorkbench says, don't flame them. They say the original article was in Digitimes, in Chinese. Who also made the claim.