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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (70994)	9/4/1999 5:04:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575007

From the link I posted last night: The next-generation version, the EV-7 (or 21364), is scheduled to tape out in December. It's intended to support clock speeds in excess of 1 GHz and will include 1.5 Mbytes of integrated L2 cache, a 6-Gbyte/ second direct Rambus memory controller, a 3-Gbyte/s I/O interface and a direct processor-to-processor interface. The package is designed to support large-scale multiprocessing and high-availability systems. Even with Alpha and Ultrasparc in the picture, Intel believes it has licked the one paper spec that has kept it from pushing to the front of the pack: floating-point performance. Merced will deliver 6 Gflops of single-precision floating-point and 3 Gflops double precision. No comment on these figures? I would think a 64 bit K8 could match or beat the Merced numbers. Pravin.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (70994)	9/4/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1575007

Ten, RE: Even Intel is planning for the coexistence of IA-32 and IA-64 for quite a while, as in years. That's why I'm wondering when AMD will layout their plans for the future. To use an old saw, Merced is late, took years to develop, I guess AMD could probably just crank out a 64 bit design tomorrow? And MSFT will just come running to help develop a version of NT64, and all vendors will compile two sets of binaries for such a high volume chip. Not. RE: However, AMD already licensed the Digital EV6 bus for Athlon. Maybe they're headed toward an Alpha-compatible processor in the future? Sweet, after Compaq and MSFT just announced they have dropped NT64 development on this chip.