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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.

  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.

  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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