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To: Thomas Mercer-Hursh who wrote (24272)	12/8/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

Thomas - I don't expect any 1U Itanic boxes - heat problems are significant even with PIII systems in that form factor. The power requirements, bus routing, and even the modules themselves dictate a larger form factor for the early IA64 products, probably at least 3U for 2P systems and 5U for 4-ways. That is compounded by the lack of a big chipset from Intel - current plans only support 4-way. The designs from Unisys and NEC are essentially transplanted mainframe designs, large and very expensive. I don't expect a large SMP chipset from Intel until at least the McKinley timeframe, late 2001 or early 2002.