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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (55605)4/15/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: RDM  Read Replies (2) of 1576882
 
<nor were there any analysts questions on it >

The Merced may be a good 64 bit chip, but may executed I86 instructions slower than other 32 processes including those of Intel at the time of introduction.

Large databases (much bigger that 1 Terabyte) need the memory addressing of a 64 machine for these application the Alpha and Merced will compete. It may be a real bummer when the expensive Merced chip is blown away by a laptop running DOOM or other 3D games using a cheaper Intel chip.

Thus the Merced may not directly compete with 32 bit chips in the desktop for some time if ever, but may effectively serve a more specialized high end database server market. 1,000,000 chips a year at $5,000 per chip is $5 Billion dollars of high margin business.
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