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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (75657)	10/17/1999 9:45:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572574

Survivin, re: "Don't wait for Itanium" <Well, duh. Intel does not plan on moving Itanium to desktop PCs until Deerfield at the earliest.> Correct. So if you want a low-cost high-powered 64-bit desktop wait for the .18 micron 21264, 15 million transistors , two shrinks down from .35 micron (initial 21264) should put it in the 110-120 mm2 range, i.e. cheap. Boxes in April at the latest I'd say. <PC world doesn't think merced will have a major impact until 2002 (if ever)> <That sounds like a statement straight out of the YUK Register. Merced will have a major impact, just not in the PC market> Very fair statement on his part. We found out just this week Windows 2000 is now a February product after repeatedly promised it will ship year-end. Maybe I'm a bit naive but I don't believe there will be a 64-bit version ready this time next year. IBM is cruising along with Power having just taken over the top spot in tpmC with their S80. HP has repeatedly pointed out that PA-8600 is the place to be for HP/UX and it takes years to transition off of HP/UX according to HP (certainly won't be anybody moving off at the end of next year). So... if: <Merced will have a major impact, just not in the PC market> What operating system will this impact be running? One question no one seems to have an answer to. Maybe a bad assumpion on my part having read hundreds of articles regarding Merced in the last 2 years... but maybe there isn't really a place for Merced at the end of next year without a clear OS to kick-start it. Not even Linley Gwennap is talking up an OS, just Merced. Suggestions? References? Rob