To: Don Lloyd who wrote (3172 ) 5/12/1998 1:49:00 AM From: Snowshoe Respond to
Don, that I2O article helps explain why WIND has been rather cautious in its I2O revenue projections. Here are a few excerpts with my comments:"We've been shipping I/O processors for about a year, but this quarter is when we'll see a real ramp-up," said Mike McGowan, product marketing manager for I/O processors at Intel's Connected PC Division (Chandler, Ariz.). "We're going from fairly low volumes to significant volumes." But in the broader OEM markets much of the effort has been to avoid the cost of the dedicated processor. Designers who want to use this model have been struggling to get the kind of performance benefits that will give them an edge in the market. Another critical stumbling block has been the lack of support from operating system vendors. To date, neither the network operating systems nor Windows NT have bundled support into standard products. The fact that patches are being offered hasn't been enough to get OEMs inspired enough to adopt the technology.
