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To: accountclosed who wrote (37239)	11/22/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Antoine - Re: " What can you tell me about xeon chip? " It is essentially a Pentium II device (0.25 micron) packaged in a SLot 2 module with Intel-manufactured SRAM chips for L2 cache that run at full processor speed - 400 or 450 MHz. L2 SRAM sizes are available in 512K, 1024K (1 Meg) and 2,048 K (2 MegaBytes). Various support chips - temperature sensors, voltage sensors, etc. - are also included in the XEON modules. The Xeons support 2-way SMP configurations directly using the 440 GX chip set. Both 400 and 450 MHz speeds are available. The XEONS support 4-way SMP configuration directly using the 450 NX chip sets. However, the XEONS initially were found to have 2 subtle bugs that messed up the 4-way SMP configuration. Both have since been corrected and Intel is shipping 400 MHz 4-way SMP XEONS and 450 NX chip sets. The 450 MHZ 4-way SMP XEONS will ship in January of next year. Servers based on XEONS offer exceptional performance for the cost - Intel's WEB site will provide benchmarks. Compaq, IBM and HP also offer tPC benchmarks for XEON-based servers. SUN is perhaps the only server vendor not to offer XEON-based systems. Paul