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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (47876)	2/14/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Duke and Intel Investors - Craig Barrett discusses Pentium II, Slot 1 and Slot 2 interfaces. Note Barrett's comment about the Low Cost PC applications which will be the fastest growing segment for Pentium II in 1998. Sounds like Covington and Mendocino to me. Paul {=========================} techweb.com Barrett: Intel is Driving the Bus (02/13/98; 7:13 p.m. EST) By Kelly Spang, Computer Reseller News While Intel was the first to depart from the traditional socket design with its Pentium II processor, the slot interface is the industry's future, according to Intel's president. "We looked at the basic processor architecture, bus architecture, PC architecture and [decided] the old Socket 7 [design] where you try to go to out to the front side bus with everything was getting cluttered and slowed down," said Craig Barrett, Intel president and chief operating officer, in an interview with CRN Online. "What you really want to do is have a high speed backside bus going to cache memory. That [objective] quickly led to a different architecture which quickly led to a different configuration for the product," he said. The end result was Slot 1 Pentium II processors, available in the channel targeting mainstream desktops and volume servers. A Slot 2 version of the Pentium II processor will follow later this year, doubling the cache access speed of Slot 1, to satisfy requirements of high performance servers and workstations, Barrett said. Intel will also modify its Pentium II for the mobile market. Product introductions for a 233- and 266-MHz Pentium II are expected in April, according to industry sources familiar with Intel's plans. The Slot 1 architecture wasn't an attempt by Intel to freeze out competition, but instead was motivated by a number of factors including cost, performance, and flexibility, Barrett said. "I think it is generally recognized that's [slot architecture] the way we are going in the future," said Barrett, who noted that rivals, including Advanced Micro Devices, are looking to a slot configuration for future product lines. A recent cross-licensing agreement between Intel and National Semiconductor gives access to Slot 1 patents to National Semiconductor, though the company hasn't announced any plans for its next-generation processor design. "Independent of all of those competitive issues, we made that decision [to standardize on a slot design] some time ago to move this direction -- period -- regardless of where our competition goes," Barrett said. As Intel moves its product line to serve all market segments with variations of the Pentium II, Barrett said he expects the low-cost PC to be the fastest growing segment for the Pentium II this year.