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To: JDN who wrote (94427)	12/21/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

JDN, <Are we talking home computer here? ... When you say MUCH BIGGER it BOGGLES my mind.> Me too. But Willamette is slated to be a desktop processor. To be sure, it will start off in the highest of high-end desktops, but yes, it is that much of a jump over Pentium III. By the way, the server (Xeon) version of Willamette is called Foster, and it will be released a few months after Willamette. The reason why no one really knows what to expect from Willamette/Foster is because Intel is very good at keeping its cards close to its chest. For example, did anyone even expect Coppermine to beat Athlon in some benchmarks (including SPEC) until Intel revealed a few months before its release that Coppermine is more than just a shrink and a bolted-on cache? I think it will be the same thing with Willamette; no one will know what to expect until perhaps mid-2000 or so. (Merced is an exception to the rule, since it needs a lot of exposure if it's going to launch a new IA-64 platform.) Tenchusatsu