I found independent conformation on Intel's web site of the 1GHz willy intro speed.
The date is Feb 14, could that be the reason? I'm not counting on this...
intelonlineservices.com
Strength in diversity
Even if IA-64 fills a substantial portion of the growing need for high-end servers to feed the Internet economy, senior management at Intel, led by Barrett, recognizes that in the Internet age, with alternative devices proliferating, increasing margin pressure from new competitors, and the sheer size of Intel, it is no longer reasonable to expect growth at the 30 percent-plus rate the company experienced through most of the 1990s.
“I’d be very pleased with 15 percent to 20 percent growth. I think that is realistic for a company our size,” Barrett says.
To do that, the Intel road map is diversifying in order to supply silicon and products at all levels of Internet infrastructure.
In the second half of this year, the desktop division will launch not only IA-64 but an entirely new line of 32-bit processors starting with Willamette. Willamette performance is expected to have an initial clock speed of about 1 GHz and a floating-point performance 20 percent greater than Pentium IIIs running at the same speed, according to research from MicroDesign Resources.
Joe,
If all Willy realistically does is 1 Ghz, AMD will take off like a moon rocket.
I am at a loss to explain why Intels roadmap says 1 Ghz...
Surely Intel can't sandbagging...not after they have demoed 1.4 Mhz chips.
They list Itanium at 800 Mhz...that seems to be NOT a conservative estimate...
So either it's a typo or we are going to be in for one heck of a shock.
Jim
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