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To: Tony Viola who wrote (10295)	7/2/1998 12:20:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I think I saw a news item today saying that Intel was going to lay off people more aggressively than previously believed. CompUSA also preannounced a loss today. There may be blood in the PC streets tomorrow. JMHO, of course.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (10295)	7/8/1998 6:08:00 PM
From: Chung Yang	Respond to of 64865

The Intel based server makers, esp. Michael Dell has this idea that he wants to bring "PC scale of economy" to servers. Well, adding new components such as an advanced cooling system brings unix server economy of scale to PCs. Starfire costs a cool 2 mill a pop fully loaded. Mike sells servers that costs 10-50k range. - Chung >>>> Chung, Re: " To be fair, you can scale Xeon beyond 2 processors. They've solved the bug in the chip set that limited them to 2. That takes them up to 4 and maybe 8" Four processors in three or four weeks or so, after the Xeon chipset flaw is tested and verified enough, eight in fourth quarter. Intel bought a company called Corollary that had an 8 way SMP architecture and design developed. They will use it for the 8 way node. Re: "if they could find a power supply, cooling system big enough." Are you serious? If Sun can power and cool up to 64 processors in a Starfire E10000, why couldn't Intel power and cool eight? Tony <<<