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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (4441)	2/17/1998 8:04:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Is the Pentium II ending up a dinosaur? no gain, except it costs more?(gain to Intel). More and more I see the Pentium II having little advantage over the K6. Will the K6-+ run out of speed soon, or will it soldier on keeping the pressure on Intel? Will Pentium II end up like the Microchannel?, completely end run? If they manage to make the AMD buses run as fast as the Pentium II by careful design and avoid the intel "kodak" patents and have the heart CPUs also run as fast that will give AMD an advantage. Bill

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (4441)	2/17/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 6843

"Intel to detail the SDRAM detour on its Rambus route" techweb.cmp.com I think Intel just recently realized that is is economically impossible to provide a stable expandable 800MHz RAM-BUS with current (and near future) printed circuit technology, especially for independent OEMs. Their own motherboards sucked big in the past due to their limited understanding of transmission theory and "black magic" of high-speed digital board design. Now these engineering signals finally reached the marketing top of the company (transmission lines must be VERY long in this organization!). Result: detour via interleaved SDRAM. Sounds pretty natural. Regards, Ali