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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (69177)	8/19/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) of 1574045

<kap, As a prototype it will get bought and beta'd in small amounts. As a bad chip it will get fewer buyers? I suspect it is nod bad, just not as good as they had hoped. Complex task to make it work fast.> This sounds right. It obviously must ship. Fortunately for HP they have had a fall back strategy all along and decided in May of 1998 to announce their PA-RISC roadmap when prior to that they had hoped to cut over to IA-64 sooner. Of course HP "saw" Merced was not the screamer hoped for ... so Plan B (extend/promote/push PA-RISC). Unfortunately for SGI, they couldn't share in the early Merced knowledge and were left flapping in the breeze but got to do a very awkward extension announcement of MIPS CPUs in March of 1999. As an interesting exercise to see how Merced has destablized SGI, (rising and falling on the Merced tide) go back and read www.news.com stories relating to Merced and SGI. Very interesting the way THAT played out. I might add much of SGI's predicament was due to slippage in Merced schedule (not so much performance). So maybe today we are looking at more slippage? Certainly can't get worse can it? Rob

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