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To: Scumbria who wrote (57410)	5/6/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1572713

Scumbria - < 0.25u at 600 MHz in a few weeks. It is going to be difficult for Intel to keep up with K7 MHz. > If the K7 becomes a viable contender in the server / workstation space, competition may bring the price down. THis is another big IF. The SRAM die has very little to do with it. Again, from Cirruslvr's post: Getting there won't be easy. Qualifying processors and chipsets for multiprocessing environments is a technically arduous and expensive process, said Gwennap. Manufacturers and customers are highly brand conscious. If AMD strategizes like the intellects on this thread, they'll have a tough row to hoe. PB

To: Scumbria who wrote (57410)	5/6/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572713

Re: "Those huge K7 L2 caches should mitigate the situation where the customers have to pay ridiculous prices for Intel SRAM." Have you ever tried to buy 550 MHz SRAMs? EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (57410)	5/6/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572713

Scumbria - < Those huge K7 L2 caches should mitigate the situation where the customers have to pay ridiculous prices for Intel SRAM.> I suggest AMD gets to work in earnest. 193.122.103.82 ===================================================================== Posted 05/05/99 4:49pm by Pete Sherriff New high-end Intel systems coming your way Through the mists of time comes swimming a whole bunch of new Intel codenames for Xeon, Foster and Merced systems. For low end servers in late Q3, expect to see the single processor Mimosa and dual CPU Pine and Hemlock boards using 133MHz FSB and the 820 chipset. Higher up the scale come the Willow 2-way and the Koa 4-way, both using the 840 chipset. Moving into the second half of 2000 we should see the Tumbleweed uniprocessor board and the Juniper 2-way, while at the high end, the Lion quad Merced board should appear in systems costing up to $20K. In early 2001, two boards for Foster (the IA32 successor to Coppermine) are scheduled – the 2-way Hickory and the 4-way Shasta. Meanwhile, workstation users have a choice of new motherboards too. The dual processor Pentium III Outrigger and the Dual Xeon Brigantine will both use the 840 chipset, while the first 2-way Merced board, codenamed Big Sur, should sample sometime in Q2 2000, with the 460GX chipset, PCI 64/66, 16Gb memory, AGP 4X and AGP Pro. Further out it gets a bit more hazy, with boards scheduled for Coppermine dubbed Lewis and Clark appearing towards the end of 2000. Nice to see Chipzilla is moving away from volcanoes and rivers for its product names and using comedy duos instead. Lewis and Clark? Don't they mean Martin and Lewis? Tom and Jerry, anyone? ®