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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (84513)	6/25/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<I read it in an issue of Microprocessor Report. Unfortunately, I don't have that issue available right now, but it was sometime around the latter half of 1998. The blurb said that original target was 40/60, and the actual starting scores were around 24/40. I guess a lot can happen over the course of six months, like an increase to a score of 30/52.> No.. that is MPR's opinion.. I think what is more important is what Jim Keller stated at MPR Forum in October 1996: europe.digital.com "Keller projects scores in excess of 30 on SPECint95 and 50 on SPECfp95 (base)." Now maybe we can nitpick that a bit.. <How's that low-cost IA64?> IA-64 isn't going low-cost any time soon, because the initial lack of software makes a low-cost solution useless. Deerfield will be Intel's first "low-cost" IA-64, but that won't be out until after McKinley. That's a shame really... as you can see from that TechWeb article UP1000's will be "as low as $3500" with 750 MHz EV67 in them. But one confusing thing... "low-cost doesn't make sense because software isn't available" .. what does that mean? Why shouldn't Merced run Intel IA32 binaries as fast or faster than Pentium III follow-ons , Coppersmith and Willamette? Then why bother with that old stale IA32 architecture at all when you can get something that runs IA32 just as fast PLUS runs floating point much faster? Besides, aren't a whole bunch of people busy writing software even as we speak on enamalators? That way when Merced boxes ship in volume 2nd half 2000 a bunch of software is available with boxes at a great price? Won't happen? Then why do Merced? High-end Databases and compete against Sun,Hp,Compaq,SGI on their architecture? Let me guess... high-end 64-bit NT SQL. Nice segment. Rob