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To: Ali Chen who wrote (37940)	10/2/1998 1:46:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571924

Intel's troubles with Xeon... from realworldtech.com News for 9/30/98 Industry Directions According to PC Week (Sept 28 issue), Intel has admitted problems in rolling out their Xeon processor line. Intel has suggested that unsold Xeon chips be returned from OEMs so they can be upgraded to a new stepping level which fixes problems with four-way processing, as well as correcting glitches with 450NX chipset communication. This has apparently caused some problems for OEMs trying to fill orders for their high-end servers. The bad news, however, is that Intel has admitted that most NT applications will not take advantage of the 1MB and 2MB cache that they intend to put on the chip, and have also admitted that the 450MHz Xeon will not provide any performance gain over the 400MHz with typical workstation apps. -------------- Isn't the Xeon supposed to be Intels big margin baby? Too bad they had to rush it to market without fully testing it... Jim