Ugly Itanic duck = pretty Alpha swan??
by: skeptically 07/13/01 07:47 am
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Ugly Itanic duck to become pretty swan
Donkey offered garotte and stick
By Mike Magee, 13/07/01 08:34:52 BST
SOURCES IN THE US suggest that current designs of of IA-64 processors may now be garotted to death inside Intel, to be replaced by Alpha technology masquerading under the Itanic cognomen.
The move may make the job of porting all those applications and operating systems Compaq will hang onto much easier, being as future generations of the Itanic will really be the Alpha in disguise, the sources add.
This information makes quite a little sense to us, seeing as Intel had an alternative team working on an alternative 64-bit architecture in Oregon, just in case the Merced-Itanic family couldn't quite cut it.
Mind you, if our sources in the US are correct, and Intel has already come along with a chopper to chop off the old Itanic line after McKinley, then this will be a graceful and deft move, entirely atypical of its 64-bit development efforts over the last seven years. No wonder HP is fuming.
In case you missed it, we published internal Intel IA 64 roadmaps after the Alpha deal, a few weeks back, and you can find them here( theinquirer.net ). µ |
