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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (44485)1/1/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) of 1573048
 
Paul,

Maybe you are right and Intel is distancing themselves from their competitors.. at the same time some might say Intel is taking a big chance and saddling themselves down with too much work trying to maintain to distinct architectures.. who knows and only time will tell.. the key thing for Merced and McKinley is how well they execute x86 code.. after that IA64 becomes equal in imporant, and a generation after that, IA64 is of top priority.. but that still leaves an awful lot of time for people to catch up/pass Intel.. think if AMD's K8 is faster than Merced at x86, which do you think will be the mainstream processor of choice.. Intel agrees with me, witness their planned extenions to IA32 with follow on chips..

The point is Paul, Merced, etc. are a gamble and even Intel isn't putting all their eggs in that basket.. hell they left 95% of the McKinley design to HP just incase it doesn't work.

Regards and Happy New Year, Best of Luck,

Steve

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