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To: T. MARINO who wrote (49331)	3/4/1998 1:44:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

All: Celeron announced! Check out: intel.com and/or intel.com Adam

To: T. MARINO who wrote (49331)	3/4/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Mr. Marino, any relation to Dan? Re: "Why do certain individuals refer to Covington as being "brain dead"? Just because it lacks L2 cache or is there some other fundamental difference in the chip?" About Covington, you are right on the money. As I've posted here twice before, even mainframes didn't have L2 cache until about three years ago. Not a necessary architectural feature to have re acceptable performance. As I also posted here twice, I plan on evaluating Covington for a PC based application, when it comes out, as a bridge vehicle on the way to switching over to PII, which we all know we have to do eventually. Re: "Doesn't Convington run at 266 Mhz and therefore will be faster than a pentium 233 in a system without L2 cache?" I read exactly what you said here as an early estimate by Intel. At approximately $150 per chip in quantity, it's a perfect bridge vehicle to PII. We will switch to Mendocino later when it becomes available, knowing Covington is only an intermediate low cost PII chip. Mendocino brings back some L2 cache, not sure how much. The reason for our looking at, and I'm sure using, Covington and Mendocino, is because this particular application doesn't require blazing speed. For those that do, we use the fastest Pentium Pros, with up to 1 MB cache, and later this year we will be going with Deschutes, and, next year, Merced. Tony

To: T. MARINO who wrote (49331)	3/4/1998 2:12:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

T. - Re: "Why do certain individuals refer to Covington as being "brain dead"?" Simply out of fear. The Celeron (old name Covington) will perform as you noted. However, it will be configured as a Slot 1 device and at a fairly low price, will accelerate the conversion of the PC industry to a Slot 1 motherboard. For those companies that don't make a slot 1 device (ALL OTHER CPU COMPANIES) this eventuality is a real problem. Ditto for investors in those other companies. Paul