PB,
Following was posted on the AMD thread, any truth, or just more speculation?
theregister.co.uk
Posted 31/01/2000 4:26pm by Mike Magee
Intel to go for McKinley before Merced
Chipzilla's follow up to the Merced-Itanium platform, McKinley, is likely to beat its
predecessor to the market, informed sources told The Register late today.
McKinley is close to taping out and the IA-64 development team believes that limited clock
speeds on Itanium yields have forced Intel to this conclusion.
The Merced-Itanium has so far failed to achieve over 600MHz clock speeds on the part,
although Intel and its partners want it to clock at at least 1GHz.
McKinley, when it tapes out, a technical chip developer's term for a chip design coming out,
will hit 1GHz "straight out of the starting gate", the source added.
Over the weekend, persistent rumours and insider emails have suggested that Intel is
ramping up Willamette far faster than it originally wanted, and that competition from AMD on
the Athlon has forced a re-visiting of its chip development strategies.
According to these sources, Willamette did tape out only a few weeks ago.
This may also explain why there is a sudden lack of ramp-up to the Coppermine platform.
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