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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: 486SL dropped, vendors test Cyrix
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:54:15 GMT
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- I see in this week's _PC Week_ that Intel has dropped most of it's
- line of previously promised 486SL CPUs, particularly the clock doubling
- models. This leaves vendors who had invested in designing systems
- without a 3.3v CPU from Intel. The article goes on to say that AST and
- Dell have evaluated using the Cyrix 486SLC.
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- A mailing list I get indicated that Intel is selling so many of the
- 486-66 chips that they are dedecating fab lines to that chip instead of
- meeting promises for the SL chips and the P5. The source was only
- identified as "an Intel source" so take that for what it's worth.
- Another rumor indicated that they couldn't make the clock doubling chips
- run at 3.3v due to process problems. The source for that is not even
- identified.
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- John Donovan (WorkGroup Tech, Inc, NH) said this "Brings into what is
- the added value of that architecture?" It's not clear if he meant just
- the 486SL or Intel 486 chips in general.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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