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To: Scumbria who wrote (86154)	7/26/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: kapkan4u	Respond to of 186894

<Intel's management made a huge mistake several years back. They pushed too many resources over to IA-64 and left their x86 flank exposed.> Scumbria, I agree that IA-64 is a very expensive research project. But Willamette was never under-funded because of it. The Merced's contribution to Willamette's difficulties is a lot subtler: the Willamette team took aim at Merced as the enemy number one and forgot about AMD. Intel management new of this attitude but considered the rivalry a "good motivational thing". So the Willamette's transistor budget and complexity kept going up and up and up. And the completion date kept going away and away and away. By the end of 2001 we will know which 300mm2 chip gets the Intel performance crown. The winner may not be the world's fastest CPU though. Kap.