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To: Marc Schiler who wrote (18598)	4/13/1999 9:34:00 PM
From: Alan Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

A relevant question transcribed from the Intel conference call - Hans Morsemen with Prudential Securities Q. Yes, Thank you. A question regarding the chipset Camino and its schedule. Is there an expectation or possibility of supporting other DRam interfaces and could that and if not, could that slow down your ramp of the Pentium III in the second half? A. OK, let me answer those in reverse order. The Pentium III ramp has been all along planned to be able to take advantage of multiple chip set platforms. First and foremost both the .25 and .18 microns will work just fine in the existing BX platform that we are shipping for Pentium II in very high volume. And our plan is to continue that throughout the year. It is particularly important to business buyers who demand a stable platform from a qualification standpoint as they go through Y2K compliance testing and so forth. So we have never had a new chipset standing in the way of the ramp; number one. Number 2, the chipset that was code named Camino which is officially named the 820 had been scheduled to be shipped in early summer. We are now targeting that for late Q3 so its a few months late, a couple few months later than we first thought. There has been all along been an option to use that chipset with SDRam. There is an interface chip that allows you to use sdram albeit at some slight performance but some slight cost benefit. I think it remains to be seem how the respective demand between sdram and rdram will play out. Our customers are likely to do multiple skews depending on their desires. Q. Could you support 133? A. Yes. Q. SDRam at 133? A. Oh, I don't think we need to do that in the 820 generation. Q. In the next generation would occur then when? A. Well, I don't think I want to get into future chipsets schedules now. Q. Alright, Thank You