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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (70472)	8/31/1999 2:30:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

<It is very normal not to show a product until it is stable - sign of a good conservatively run company.> Chuck, Merced is very high-profile. I said it before. This isn't just another IA-32 processor, something that all of a sudden hits the market and runs all of the latest software right off the bat. This is a brand new architecture, one that Intel has building up the anticipation for, even before the well-publicized delay. Intel will need the support from the entire industry in order to make sure that IA-64 is launched with a bang from the start. That's why there's so much attention focused on Merced. We hear about tapeout, silicon coming soon, silicon arriving, silicon functional, and now samples being shipped. Of course this kind of exposure is abnormal. But Intel has to build up the enthusiasm, which means the entire Merced project is going to be highly visible to the public. Tenchusatsu