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To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (46083)	1/19/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: StockMan	Respond to of 186894

Victoria Gate MD, Re -- biggest product release for 1998 is not any fastest Microprocessor ? It's the bus speed on upcoming systems to 100 MHz by mid-1998. In terms of moving the PC industry (66Mhz boards, memory, and chipsets), this is true. However the Deschutes, the 350/400 Mhz pentiumII's, the sub-1000/800/500 systems, IMO, will also be quite big releases. Stockman

To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (46083)	1/19/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Vg - Re: " intel's the biggest product release for 1998 is not any fastest Microprocessor ? It's the bus speed on upcoming systems to 100 MHz" The 100 MHz 440BX Chip set, to enable 100 MHz bus speeds, will be big - and will happen before mid-1998. Probably end of Q1/early Q2. The chip set (it's a single chip !) is functional and production has already commenced. The faster microprocessors will be enhanced even faster with the 100 MHz external speeds. My prediction is that about an hour after the release of the 440BX chip (set), there will be a clamor for bus speeds faster than 100 MHz. Intel can do it -- but DRAM makers have to speed up SDRAM cycle times to less than 7.5 nS. Sometime in 1998 I expect Intel to introduce a chip (set) that will support RAMBUS's RDRAM interface - for x86 processors. This will add another boost to system performance. Paul Paul

To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (46083)	1/19/1998 10:05:00 PM
From: Lev Belov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

>>Do you think intel's the biggest product release for 1998 is not any fastest Microprocessor ? It's the bus speed on upcoming systems to 100 MHz by mid-1998. << I'm pretty sure you'll get a comprehensive answer from Paul, but let me add my 2 cents (not yet invested :-) I think that the BX chipset may play the same role for Pentium II that the PCI bus played for Pentium. Back in 95 it was the PCI bus and a variety of fast peripherals for it, that in my opinion made Pentium such an obvious choice over a 486. And even though it was possible to buy a 486 PCI motherboard, in consumer's mind PCI was firmly associated with Pentium. I think that once BX is out, a combination of PentiumII/BX will be a clear choice over a legacy socket 7 design with Pentium classic/AMD/Cyrix. P.S. my reference to consumers really meant people who design machines, not people who buy them. The latter usually do not know what PCI is.