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Mistakes Technology Intel 820 Chip Set
820 Chipset Motherboard Failure, Shipment Delayed, 990925

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0706 - Summary/Objective
0707 -
070701 - Follow up ref SDS 20 0000, ref SDS 17 0000.
070702 -
070703 - Article in Electronic Buyers' News reports Intel's decision last week
070704 - to delay volume availability of its Camino chipset until late in the
070705 - third quarter has sparked widespread frustration among companies with
070706 - new products tied to the rollout.
070707 -
070708 - "It's our worst-case scenario," said Avo Kanadjian, vice president of
070709 - memory marketing for Samsung Semiconductor Inc., San Jose. ref OF 4
070710 - 4824
070711 -
070712 - On 950428 seminar reported planning and management in IT is inadequate
070713 - because engineers prefer to work on technology and avoid analysis.
070714 - ref SDS 2 7007  Productivity in IT has declined. ref SDS 2 3921
070715 -
070716 -     [On 990524 offered to help engineers, ref SDS 19 0876; report that
070717 -     managers push engineers to save time by avoiding good engineering
070718 -     practices. ref SDS 19 6892
070719 -
070720 -     [On 991007 sent letter to Dave Vannier on cause and solution to
070721 -     mistakes. ref SDS 21 7920]
070722 -
070723 -     [On 000517 report that good engineering saves time. ref SDS 22
070724 -     2064
070725 -
070726 -     [On 000822 Intel CEO says management mistakes caused product
070727 -     delays, not bad luck, taking steps to improve. ref SDS 23 019R
070728 -
070729 - Sources expect volume production for the Camino, or Intel 820 chipset,
070730 - which was set for a June debut, will now reach volume production
070731 - levels in late September. ref OF 4 1368
070732 -
070733 -     [On 990925 Intel delays production again due to mistake.
070734 -     ref SDS 20 0001]
070735 -
070736 -
070737 - Manufacturing Cannot Meet Impedence Requirements
070738 -
070739 - Delay is attributed to lingering design issues related to the chipset
070740 - and support ICs. ref OF 4 1368  Persistent difficulties have occurred
070741 - with Direct RDRAM manufacturing yields and issues related to clock-IC
070742 - timing and printed-circuit-board impedance. ref OF 4 2066
070743 -
070744 -     Impedence, also, called "noise," was a major problem with the gear
070745 -     on Broadwater Dam, reported on 911010.
070746 -
070747 - The Intel 820 enables systems to move to a faster, 133-MHz frontside
070748 - bus and provides the interface for Direct Rambus DRAM, a long-awaited
070749 - high-speed memory that is expected to boost PC performance in 1999.
070750 - ref OF 4 3540
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070752 - Initial Rambus-enabled platforms are aimed at corporate users willing
070753 - to pay in excess of $2,500 for a desktop PC. Direct RDRAM chips are
070754 - expected to account for between 10% and 15% of total DRAM sales this
070755 - year, according to various projections. ref OF 4 7140
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