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To: tejek who wrote (82160)	12/7/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578486

Tejerk - AMD 750 MHz AThlon - The Fastest PC Processor In the World - Except for the 733 MHz Coppermine ! themeter.com Paul

To: tejek who wrote (82160)	12/7/1999 1:40:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578486

Re: Intel shipping Itanium developer systems... They have to - more work is involved in coding for Itanium than just a next generation of X86 architecture, and it will take more time. It is vital that Intel give developers plenty of lead time so that Itanium isn't left with nothing to run but Pentium code in emulation (or in an embedded x86 module). VLIW is a grail that Intel has been chasing for a long time, maybe it will have been worth the effort for them. I don't think they were expecting serious competition during their (planned) carefully orchestrated transition, though. In earlier roadmaps, even coppermine was going to be running at substantially lower clocks than Itanium for the transition so that the inevitable benchmarks run in emulation wouldn't have much competition. With Athlon out there, Intel can't afford to handicap Pentium to make Itanium look good. This will probably be a rough transition for Intel - Itanium will be something of a disappointment, at first or permanently. A few well tuned benchmarks and some programs will show spectacular results, then people will run everything else, and be shocked that real programs don't show the improvements of the benchmarks. Just my opinion and expectation, but then I thought Rambus wouldn't do well back in August, and I thought Athlon would surprise on the upside, so what do I know :-) Dan