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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
- Subject: Re: Pentium to be Scrapped?!
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:03:59 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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- Message-ID: <1iqh1vINNdab@chnews.intel.com>
- References: <1993Jan8.142619.14531@bilver.uucp> <82960@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM> <1993Jan10.032935.18316@bilver.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan10.032935.18316@bilver.uucp> wbeebe@bilver.uucp (Bill Beebe) writes:
- >The SL chips were harder to design with and more expensive. Also, consider
- >that using an SL chip provided some product differentiation over your stock
- >SX or DX laptop or notebook. Many have gone down the path designing for this
- >particular variant, and don't appreciate having their engineering efforts
- >wiped out in one fell swoop by Intel.
-
- Well, implementing a power-managing platform requires
- implementing a power-management-tolerant platform, even if
- the chip handles its own problems.
-
- There's still room to differentiate for power management,
- just as it's possible to have similar motherboards that
- differ only in off-cpu cache[*], etc., and any differentiation
- is worth a few bucks in the marketplace, even if it's
- artificial, which in this case it wouldn't be.
-
- --Blair
- "I'm allowed to talk about it
- because I don't know a thing..."
-
- [*] I've gone through January's Computer Shopper with a
- fine-toothed felt-tip pen, and noticed that hardly anyone
- offers 466DX/33 machines in both a 64k and 256k cache
- configuration, though it's a toss-up which they'll implement,
- and only one actually mentioned that their board can be
- upgraded from 64k to 256k (they offered to do it for just
- $50).
-