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To: Ali Chen who wrote (70809)	9/2/1999 9:54:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Respond to of 1574270

Ali, <Do you mean that he left his position at SGI as Principal Scientist at System Architecture and Performance? The promotion he got just a year ago? And now with IBM? Fast career advances indeed...> Think about it.. he was at SGI. SGI sinking fast. Care to go long on SGI? Good luck. SGI .. what a wonderful study. Banked heavily on Merced being meaningful and on time. Made a last gasp course reversal with an extended MIPS roadmap in March of this year.. nearly a full year (May of 1998) after HP made their Merced reversal and trotted out their extended PA-RISC roadmap. You can't help but feel a bit sorry for SGI as wonderful engineering is being pummelled by poor management.. top that off with MIPS looking rather embarassing performance-wise: Box: Origin2100 Spec Submission Date: August 20, 1999 CPU: R10000 @ 250 MHz SpecInt95: 15.3 SpecFp95: 25.2 Box: XP1000 Spec Submission Date: August 18, 1999 CPU: 21264A @ 667 MHz SpecInt95: 37.5 SpecFp95: 65.5 I suppose he may regret it now that he fully realizes Merced is a screamer and the numbers flying around IDF had EVERYONE amazed they were so good!!! Not. Very wise decision on his part I would say. . . Rob