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To: Tony Viola who wrote (67137)	10/21/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "good news about Xeon acceptance, especially since its rollout was not "squeaky clean". " I'd say a "SQUEAKY" rollout would describe the Xeon launch. But at least Intel identified the problem - and the fixes - in time to correct them before volume purchases would be impacted. Re: "Overall company infrastructure support provided by the server chip, motherboard, node, etc. vendor is the overwhelming differentiator, even including the CPU chip itself, when an OEM selects their main hardware vendor for servers" You are completely correct in this regard. Intel's 4 or 5 years experience in designing SMP CPUs (original Pentium Pro) and chips sets, mother boards, support chips, power supply/temperature/airflow interfaces cannot be duplicated simply by a "Clones 'R Us" company offering a cheap imitation CPU at a very cheap price. AMD is going to have another difficult lesson to learn. Paul