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To: Paul Engel who wrote (85949)	7/19/1999 12:28:00 AM
From: Diamond Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thought you were going on vacation?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (85949)	7/19/1999 2:29:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<Merced Chip Set Designs Proliferate ... IBM and HP, as well as Intel, will be making them.> Not just Intel (460GX), IBM (Summit), and HP (CEC). Siemens in Germany is designing their own Merced chipset, and I would guess NEC in Japan is doing one as well. These proliferations are great news for the Merced infrastructure. The 460GX will be used as the SHV (standard high volume) chipset. It's purpose will be to commoditize Merced platforms that are 4-way and under. (Strange to use "Merced" and "commodity" in the same sentence.) The custom chipsets will be used for higher than 4-way Merced systems, and they will help individual companies differentiate their products and avoid the cookie-cutter syndrome. Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (85949)	7/19/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, nice article about the big guys, IBM and HP, et al, designing chipsets and laying other groundwork for Merced and McKinley. To that end, IBM is building a core-logic chip set that will enable it to construct up to 32-way multiprocessing systems. The set, code-named Summit, is being designed at IBM's Research Triangle Park PC operations. It will be used in upcoming incarnations of the Netfinity server family. I wonder why no similar announcements around Atholon. Oh, here's why: The impetus for the effort, said IBM's Bradicich, was the need to ensure a more-robust platform that wouldn't be subject to the crashes that are so common in desktop computing environments. "It is not possible to find the performance, reliability and scalability [we need] in a commodity chip set," said Bradicich. They're looking for super RAS, so they'd want to build around CPU chips from the company with the best record for compatibility, yield and reliability (add deliverability). No brainer here. Bit of triviality here, the acronym HP is using, CEC, was used for a CPU element in an S390 machine back a couple of generations. No big, I guess. Hewlett-Packard is also looking to break from the pack with a proprietary core-logic chip set for Merced that supports up to 32-way multiprocessing. HP will use it as a key enabling technology for a line of high-end, high-performance servers built around the IA-64 architecture. The chip set is code-named CEC, for core electronics complement. Tony