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To: Paul Engel who wrote (64503)	9/11/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - Compaq will launch 8-way XEON Servers next year using the new Intel/Corollary chip set and the 64 bit/66 MHz PCI chip sets developed by Compaq/Dec and now made by Intel (I think). The burgeoning Server business is going to consume lots of those XEON chips in the coming months and years. Any guess what impact that may have on Intel's revenues and ASP's and profits? Also - please note the comments on MERCED made by the Compaq spokesman. I didn't find any reference to Alpha chips for some strange reason. Paul {==============================} infoworld.com Compaq readies eight-way Xeon servers By Terho Uimonen InfoWorld Electric Posted at 6:53 AM PT, Sep 11, 1998 BEIJING -- Compaq in next year's first quarter will up the ante in its enterprise-class server line, with the introduction of ProLiant models powered by as many as eight Intel Pentium II Xeon processors, a company official said here Thursday. Before it releases the eight-processor models, Compaq will first use the high-end Xeon processor in the ProLiant 5500 and 6500 series, which will be available very soon in up to four-way configurations, said Tim Golden, director of enterprise server product marketing at Compaq. Golden was speaking at the Compaq World '98 exhibition and conference here to a crowd of the company's Chinese channel partners and users. In addition to doubling the processor count, Compaq will also double the speed of the PCI bus on the forthcoming eight-way Xeon ProLiants. They will feature a 64-bit PCI bus running at 66 MHz, as compared to today's 33 MHz, Golden said. The faster PCI speed will boost data transfer rates of the eight-way Xeon servers up to four times over Compaq's current high-end Intel servers, he added. The doubling of the PCI bus speed will be the result of a new architecture that uses four Compaq-developed PCI bridge chips and two memory controller chips developed by Irvine, Calif.-based Corollary, which last year became a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel, Golden said. Corollary's design will become a mainstay in high-end servers following the Intel acquisition, with as many as 85 percent of the world's eight-way servers to be based on Corollary's technology, Golden predicted. Compaq, together with Hewlett-Packard and IBM, has also announced plans for an even faster PCI specification, called PCIx, which is designed to raise the speed of the bus to 133 MHz. By 2000, Compaq plans to begin the transition of its high-end servers to Intel's forthcoming 64-bit processor, code-named Merced, Golden said. "Merced will be fundamentally important to the market place," he added, because it will drive the development of 64-bit applications. Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, can be reached at compaq.com. Terho Uimonen is a correspondent in the Taipei, Taiwan, bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Related articles: "PCI rift bus between Intel and system vendors a symptom of bigger battle" Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright c 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.