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To: Scumbria who wrote (68502)	11/12/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - Re: " Whitney may have taped out before Portola, with the Portola core. Intel certainly can do miraculous things!" This does sound odd, but it's true ! The Portola requires fast AGP 4x buffers - but the Whitney doesn't since the graphics are emebedded in the chip set. Thus, the I/O buffer designs for the Portola took a little longer and had to be added after the core was completed. By that time, the Whitney was also completed (or nearly so) and ready to tape out. Paul