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To: Elmer who wrote (58539)	6/22/1998 10:46:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 186894

Elmer, Slot2 is intended for workstations as well as servers. I don't think many of us need 8-way systems on our desktops while a 1 or 2-way system may be just the ticket. Agree with you 95% there. But a lot of high-end rendering software and cad packages will now natively support upto 4 CPUs (i.e. they are designed to run on upto 4 way SMP systems). I know a couple of firms who are using quad-PPro because they can squeeze times down further. So some of the market will wait. For the highend, yes this will hurt Intel a little, no doubt about it. Yeah this puts a 2 month dent into Intel's "very highend server" market penetration. As for high profile slips, I guess it's what happens when you have high visibility. And don't forget the prevailing attitude in the market today "let's beat the $hit outta the tech stocks". Steve