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To: Techie who wrote (48161)	6/18/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 176387

"Said something like" will not do. You have a way of twisting statements to fit your agenda. Not that ASP pressure isn't a reality... we know it is, but an increase from 2500 to 2540 next Q is still less than Q4's 2600 and represents continued pressure. Well Techie, I am currently working on next years line of Intel based Katmai/Coppermine processors and Camino/Carmel chipsets. There will be more ASIC's than ever on these next generation desktop/workstation products. This is not the level of integration you and Bilow (who has no idea of what's going on in the PC development arena unless he's swimming in a sea of Intel restricted documents) are hoping for. A few tidbits: Dual channel Rambus - 3.2GB/sec bandwidth Dual PCI busses - 32bit and 64bit 133Mhz FSB - CPU speeds >600Mhz AGP 4X Pro - 266MB/sec - 64-128MB frame buffer sizes Server memory support sizes to 8GB+ 500W+ power supply Plus a slew of new intelligent management features and other goodies I can't talk about. The pre-boot environment alone is going to be far more complex than ever. That's why I'm saying todays PC is already obsolete. PC's are a long way off from becoming a commodity. We are not any where near the point where we can sweep all the current technology into an ASIC, lock the chassis and be done-with-it. MEATHEAD