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To: Ibexx who wrote (6014)	8/1/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Thread, An article on Intel strategy & Katmai/Camel (courtesy of P. Engel of the Intel thread): techweb.com Some technical details from Tom the Ueberclockmeiser: "Carmel will be successor of 450NX, designed for servers and workstations and the Tanner CPU. It will be a server version of Camino, supporting 4x AGP, Direct Rambus DRAM (direct RDRAM), ATA66 and integrated AC'97 digital link as well as the 66 MHz 64 bit PCI bus. 450NX will be the high end chipset for Slot 2 servers, offering quad or even octal CPU support, up to 4 GB of main memory and 66 MHz PCI bus, but no SDRAM support. 440GX will be the less sophisticated Slot 2 chipset, the only important difference to 440BX will be the support of up to 2 GB of main memory. Camino is the code name of the chipset that will be particularly targeted for the Katmai CPU on the beginning of next year. It will support 4x AGP, Direct Rambus DRAM (direct RDRAM), ATA66 and integrates AC'97 digital link. AC97 is something typical for Intel. It represents an interface for a cheap modem/audio codec, which is supposed to do the job of a real modem or sound card, but using the CPU power for its operations. Thus taking the strain from an absolute low cost part, as modems and sound cards already are, and putting it onto the CPU without any real sense, except from ensuring the upgrade to the next more powerful Intel CPU. All chipsets above the 440LX will run at 100 MHz front side bus or higher. It seems likely that Carmel as well as Camino will run at 133 MHz FSB to take advantage of direct RDRAM and 4x AGP. Ibexx