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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (109825)	5/8/2000 8:12:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (2) of 1586979

Re: I got a brother who works at Sequent, which IBM bought, presumably somewhat for their IA64 multiprocessor. Dan, I wouldn't doubt that. There's no question that a few years ago IBM was definately looking forward to getting their processor solution from INTC. The old timers I talk to seem to think that if Merced would have come out on time, POWER3-II would have been discontinued. There's no question that INTC blew a huge opportunity to be IBM's server processor supplier by the countless utter failures involved with IA64. Now what? IBM has moved to copper and has a far superior processor. It would be very hard to move to IA64 now. IBM would be giving up the 2-3 year lead in technology they enjoy over SUNW. It just wouldn't make any sense. Which brings up the point again, why are we developing a SMP board for IA64? There's 2 possibilities here. 1) Someone knows something we don't. 2) The people making this decision at IBM are clearly incompetent. chic

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