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To: Paul Engel who wrote (93446)	12/6/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Monday December 6, 8:35 pm Eastern Time Intel shipping Itanium developer systems SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6 (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) the world's biggest computer chip maker, said on Monday it is shipping systems with prototypes of its new Itanium processor to hardware and software developers, so they develop Itanium-based products. The Itanium chip, which is due in commercial volume by the middle of next year, is Intel's first processor to use its new 64-bit architecture, which processes data in chunks of 64 bits, instead of the standard 32 bit architecture it uses now. The Itanium and others in this new family will be initially targeted to the higher performance computing and workstation markets. In August, Intel announced that it has achieved ''first silicon,'' meaning it had built the first chips from the design of the new product. Now it is shipping servers and workstations with prototypes of the new chips to help speed the development of future computers and software to run on the new chips. Developers had previously been using emulation software that emulated the Itanium processor and its new architecture environment, for more than a year. ''We have made some pretty good progress over the past few months, since we achieved first silicon,'' said Ron Curry, director of marketing at Intel's IA-64 processing division. He said there are now six operating systems running on the new chip, including Microsoft Corp.'s (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) Windows 2000, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) Solaris and others. Curry said that Intel remains on track to begin volume production of Itanium processors for commercial use in the middle of 2000. ''Our objective is to keep the whole development program on track,'' he said. ''By being able to deliver these things as early as we are gives us very high confidence in delivering production processors and systems around the middle of next year.''

To: Paul Engel who wrote (93446)	12/6/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - RE: "The interested reader might observe that no PC manufacturer has ever introduced an AtHWIPE Notebook PC." Did PC manufacturers have PII notebooks within five months of the PII's release??? No! In fact, It took Intel almost one YEAR to come out with a notebook PII chip. intel.com Why should AMD be set to your standards?