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To: fyodor_ who wrote (71982)2/19/2002 11:17:48 PM
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fyo, for the latest on McKinley, check out Paul Demone's recent report (2/18) covering the ISSCC. He also laments the demise of EV8 (as do we all).

realworldtech.com

From his conclusion:

In contrast to the EV8’s cold grave, the McKinley seems to have a bright future ahead of it. Unlike the execrable Merced, the second generation IA64 processor is a well designed chip with an incredibly capable on-chip cache hierarchy. That cache hierarchy, combined with many other measures to minimize instruction latency as well as increase the clock rate, should help McKinley overcome the burden of an ill-conceived and misguided instruction set architecture to yield respectable integer and floating point performance levels. By offering decent high end performance at relatively low costs (from its chip merchant business and potential economies of scale), Intel and its business partners will likely see strong customer acceptance when it officially releases McKinley later this year. Perhaps enough to turn the corner and start paying a return on the billions invested in IA64 over the past eight years.

I'm not sure about the 'low cost' conjecture, 300mm notwithstanding. This chip is huge.

eCo
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