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To: JD_Canuck who wrote (77290)	8/13/2001 1:53:35 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi JD_Canuck; Re the Intel DDR news. I suppose it's something that puts their DDR plans into a more optimistic light. The Bloomberg article suggested that this would be DDR early. I don't think so. I do expect to see DDR P4s before January 1st, but I don't think they'll be officially sanctioned Intel 845s. I really don't think that Intel will officially have DDR before Jan 1st. There may be a few Taiwanese companies that ship a few boards (I gave a link to the specs and photo of a DDR P4 motherboard here: #reply-16191773 that was the first DDR P4 photo I'd seen, but nobody seemed to care), but I don't think any will be official Intel. And it's likely that VIA, SiS or ALi will ship boards before the end of the year, but I wouldn't think that that would be the good news he was talking about. Instead, my (total complete) guess is that it's a speed improvement and that they'll announce that DDR will come out of the blocks in January at 266MHz instead of 200MHz. Right about now would be about the right time to be figuring stuff like that out. And if they don't release that sort of news at least 3 months before boards come out, it would crimp their sales orders &c. Maybe Jdaasoc will comment on it. But I really don't know. -- Carl