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Intel to use "foreign" chipsets

10//07/2001 12:07:40

More Tualatin anomalies

CHIP CYCLOPS Intel is alerting its distribution and dealership channel to the server boxed motherboards it will release using "Tualatin" .13 micron Pentium III microprocessors.

But, for the first time in living memory, La Intella does not appear to be using its own chipset for the Pentium IIIs which come with a useful 512K of on-die cache, according to documents we have seen.

It does recommend third party chipsets for some configurations, but we believe it is the first time we have seen such parts being bundled in a boxed motherboard kit.

A memo headed : "Motherboards for Boxed Intel® Pentium® III Processors with 512k cache in theFC-PGA2 Package" also contains a strange matrix confirming that it is buying in outside chipsets to support the Pentium III-S (for server) products.

Motherboard	Chipset	Processor Package
SAI2	3rd party	FC-PGA2
SDS2	3rd party	FC-PGA2
SCB2	3rd party	FC-PGA2
S815EBM1	Intel 815E	FC-PGA2

The boards are becoming available as we speak, and La Intella is also offering its system integrators a demo 1.13GHz Pentium III/512 at $213 apiece. This price is below the "retail" price.

There are already huge backorders, we learn.