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To: sun-tzu who wrote (3046)	9/29/2002 12:06:08 PM
From: XBrit	Read Replies (1) of 29608

This is pretty old news in the trade press. Itanium is widely known as "Itanic". Nobody except Intel gives it a prayer of succeeding in the market place. It's a complete break from 32-bit Intel x86 architecture, so it can't run any existing PC software. So it's going head-to-head with Sun Sparc and IBM PowerPC, starting with NO existing base of developed software. I have no idea why Intel ever thought this would succeed. It's also 6 years late compared to the original 1996 schedule, but no big deal. Intel will have to start over with a new processor which runs 32-bit x86 instructions together with new 64-bit ones. They will probably (humiliation of humiliations) have to license the 64-bit extensions from AMD, who did a good job of developing them.

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