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To: Paul Engel who wrote (58142)	5/14/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1572437

Paul: Some Bad News About Intel Xeon 8-way servers June now comes in August. CSN:May 1999 Whither Intel's Eight-Ways? It's impossible to get past Intel's thought police for confirmation, but OEMs are bracing themselves for the promised availability of Corollary's eight-way building blocks to slip past the current end-of-June deadline. And it's not just because Corollary has blown its credibility with the vendor community by having done this so many times before. The word out now has the release schedule reset for the end of August. Acer noted that its engineering staff had gotten ini-tial samples in January but that what it called the "golden" pre-production samples that they should have gotten by now had failed to arrive. Data General, for one, which had planned to announce the new eight-ways this month and ship them next month, said it might go ahead and announce them anyway to reassure customers that it would in fact have the boxes eventually. It is concerned that if it doesn't its clients could get poached. It wouldn't do it if it was its own technology mishap but this is a total buy-in, it said. Hitachi, which has built an eight-out out of an early Corollary snapshot using its own ASICs and chips, and NEC, which has its own eight-way which Bull is also selling, should be tickled. They have the only existing eight-ways. The reasons for Corollary's latest hiccup aren't totally clear thanks to Intel's KGB. It could be per-formance or something more fundamental. Doing what it's doing with crossbar technology ain't easy. Moving to the Deschutes chip with its newfangled 100MHz bus using a design that was originally creat-ed for the Pentium Pro and its slower 66MHz bus proved a bear (CSN No 251). Since then some of the continued delay has been laid at the door of LSI Logic which couldn't turn one of the key cross mem-ory controller chips around. IBM Microelectronics had to ride to the rescue (CSN No 292). Dell said it thought that an ASIC had gone bad and was responsi-ble for the latest delay. Corollary's delayed release will put it closer in time to NT 5.0's nominal release date of October 6 though Corollary has claimed that it doesn't need 5.0 to prove performance gain.