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To: Paul Engel who wrote (148362)	11/15/2001 7:47:24 PM
From: t2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Does Intel give a mid-quarter update soon? Is it now a regular event? Thanks.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (148362)	11/16/2001 12:51:13 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"Northwood (0.13 micron process) will initially launch in quarter 1 at 2.2 GHz - 400 MHz FSB, but will be succeeded by a 2.4 GHz - 533 MHz Northwood in (early) Quarter 2. It has also been confirmed that Northwood has 512 KB L2-cache on board" Looks AMD is in big trouble...They will need a couple hundred extra Mhz by then or else... Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (148362)	11/16/2001 8:31:44 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: 2.4 GHz - 533 MHz Northwood in (early) Quarter 2 Northwood with expensive dual channel RDRAM - 3.2Gbytes/second Northwood with single channel DDR266 - 2.1Gbytes/second Northwood with single channel DDR333 - 2.7Gbytes/second The only thing the P4 is any good for is streaming data because it has a 3.2Gbyte/second front side bus. While AMD's DDR is a superior solution to Intel's RDRAM approach, single channel DDR266 and DDR333 are both still slower than P4's FSB and neither can be run with it synchronously (as can RDRAM). PC1066 with 133x4 FSB will help P4 on artificial benchmarks that move bytes from one place in memory to another, (in real world applications, if bytes are in memory, there is rarely any reason to move them around to other locations) but P4 was designed for RDRAM, not DDR, and its FSB continues face a mis-match penalty when working with DDR. That's the price you pay when you're a follower, and not a leader: you have to kluge your parts to work with the standard the industry leader has established. Your stuff winds up costing more and not working as well.