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To: Tony Viola who wrote (106082)	7/24/2000 4:02:31 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) of 186894

"Ten, >And second, this benchmark was run on a five-year-old P6 core implementing a God-knows-how-old x86 architecture. I wonder what sort of SPEC2000 results we'll see on Itanium, given that IA-64 is more dependent on the compiler than other architectures. You're asking us? Bring it on out so we can find out. I know, years in the making and a cast of thousands. Maybe a race with Sun's Ultrasparc III? Intel looks to have laid a strong foundation for servers with Pentium Pro and Xeon. That should help customer acceptance of Itanium, McKinley at the top of the server happen more easily." -- Don't get too excited about Itanium there. Regarding SPEC2000 and Itanium... take a look at Spec95 and Spec2000 and notice that Intel went from a leadership position to a trailing position (note 833 MHz Alphas... by the way, 21264A .. no on-chip L2 yet). specbench.org Cache misses on in-order Itanium ought to make the int numbers a little less than stellar. However, Linley Gwennap stated 50 SpecInt95 and 80 SpecFp95. Don't expect that to translate into leadership int2000 numbers (more detail available from Paul DeMone at RealWorldTech.com) Also, and maybe more importantly... the Solaris on Itanium goose is cooked: news.cnet.com Remember, Sun isn't in a leadership position due to performance. They have been trailing big time for a while. Note there is only a single Spec2000 benchmark out there for Sun and it is a joke. Sun is leading because of systems and solutions. More apps for Sun than anyone. IBM has a more realistic chance than anyone as the S80 is very strong and yet Sun turns in a record quarter. One wonders why anyone buys an Itanium system? Performance? Ha! Maybe they buy them because they know it says Intel Inside and no one ever got fired for buying Intel ;-) Rob

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