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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (152385)	12/13/2001 9:08:08 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The Rambus "wind tunnel" lives on! Intel is having problems supplying some versions of its spanking new Xeon microprocessor. The problem has appeared on the 1.7GHz Xeon, which uses the "Foster" .18 micron core, and in its boxed motherboard version. According to the reseller, after waiting five weeks for the Xeon 1.7GHz, two out of the six parts were dead on arrival. The reseller immediately contacted Intel because under the warranty for boxed products, replacements are supposed to be available immediately. But the system integrator was told there was no stock of the parts, not until February 14th at the earliest. He added that Xeons come with a so-called "wind tunnel" or plastic heatsink shroud, and there are also difficulties using these with some motherboards, such as the Tyan S2603 Thunderboard, which uses two Xeon Pentium 4s and the 860 chipset. Soldering irons have to be wielded because of the "wind tunnels" with risky capacitor adjustments and problems with cable lengths. 213.219.40.69

To: Charles Gryba who wrote (152385)	12/13/2001 9:48:39 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, you are full of it. The celery cost the same as the P2 to make and yet it was sold at less than 1/2 the price. Are you seriously trying to tell us that intel did NOT subsidize the celery in order to take away the only market AMD had? No the original Celeron had no off die L2 cache, so it was considerably cheaper to make. But you've already made up your mind. Why confuse you with facts? EP