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To: greg nus who wrote (2824)	12/10/1997 12:32:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6843

greg, re: extending Socket 7 life. Yes, $500-$1000 PC's will definitely be mostly Socket 7, IMO. The slot 1 cartridge was mostly needed to get rid of Pentium II heat and this will not be an issue for any 0.25 micron procesors. The second reason for Slot 1, bringing the L2 cache closer to the chip and disassociating it from the motherboard speed will disappear in the second half of '98 when L2 cache comes onboard the K6+3D. (Intel will be a little behind of AMD if all goes according to plan.) Petz

To: greg nus who wrote (2824)	12/10/1997 2:40:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 6843

Greg - Re: "...as slot 1 and new solutions will be cost prohibited to lower end price sensitivity. " Check the parts count on an Asus, Tyan, Shuttle, or Intel 440LX Slot 1 board. There are only 5 or 6 IC's on the board. The component count is small and will drive Slot 1 boards down in cost. Re:"...Pentium products will be a generation behind the others Idti and Nsm single chip solutions." IDTI today only offers a Pentium MMX equivalent device. Cyrix today only ofers a two-chip solution. By the time $500 PCs are available at the end of next year, Intel will make money on the CPU that goes into them. I would suspect that they will have 0.18 micron devices rolling off the new fab lines by then. As for AMD & Cyrix - they haven't made any money yet, so I wouldn't be too sure about their future performance. Paul