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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96094)	3/1/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 1572347

Tench, <Alpha Rob! Long time, no see! I kind of missed your insights.> Thanks Tench... laying low as Alpha is nearing an inflection point ( ;-) ) with Wildfire on near term horizon and EV68 finally showing up this summer. <Compaq will use an eight way system based on Foster (Willamette) and then will migrate that model to the future Intel McKinley model. Interesting. Compaq reckons there is so much growth in the eight way market, as its sales figures have proved, that it makes more sense to migrate the eight way model to McKinley, kind of leaving Itanium for the Itaniates> ---- It could also be that Intel isn't developing an 8-way chipset for Merced/Itanium. Intel does have an 870 chipset coming for McKinley and Foster, though, and that will be 8-way. ----- True... but Compaq doesn't use Intel's current 8-way chipset (good thing too huh?) and more than likely could develop a working (ouch) 8-way chipset for Itanium if they saw a market for it. However, why even throw the resources at chipsets for Itanium when Itanium is Dead-On-Arrival (more accurately such a small segment , why bother?) Rob

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