P4 DDR Support March 2002

Sources at the Intel Developer Forum were indicating that Intel's support for DDR memory for its Pentium 4 product line might not be available until at least March 2002. This is in contrast to the expectations of many of Intel's Taiwanese OEM customers that P4 DDR will be making inroads into the market immediately in January 2002. There are two specifications being hammered out by Intel with its OEMs, one to support DDR200, and one for DDR266. It is still unclear whether Intel is confident enough in the DDR266 spec to give it its blessing early in the first quarter of 2002. This means that DDR support for Pentium 4s in the first half of 2002 is a realistic and vague enough concept, further confusing the market as to what direction to take with new system designs.