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To: Paul Engel who wrote (96534)	1/17/2000 2:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, <All their bombast about NOT using ITanium seems to have EAVAPORATED now that HP has got hold of real ITanium CPUs and systems.> That "bombast" was nothing more than the press inflating anti-Merced FUD to the extreme. HP merely said that their N-class of servers won't be going to Merced. This was because Merced didn't fit into the regular 2-year upgrade cycle for those N-servers. Adding a little mini-upgrade stage just to accomodate Merced would be way too difficult considering the N-server support structure. They never said that they'll completely forego Merced, but that's what the press insinuated. HP commented that Merced will be supported in other lines of servers, but that comment was relegated to a mere footnote near the bottom of the articles. Also, the comments about Merced's "ho-hum performance" was also overblown by the press, even though they were actually referring to PA-RISC emulation. At least that negative press did have one nice effect. It made the competition feel a bit more complacent. Even some AMDroids think that Merced won't be able to compete against a copper Athlon, even with Merced running native IA-64 apps. Boy will they be in for a surprise! Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (96534)	1/17/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re HP designing chipsets for IA-64, My guess is that HP is busy doing the same thing as Hitachi - working on their own 32 or 64-way SMP chip sets for IA64. I wonder about all these different IA-64 chipsets...Hitachi, HP, IBM (I think I saw), Intel, etc. Makes one wonder about compatibility, data integrity, cost. Lots of issues. Still, infinitely better than having no-one designing around your new processor, like maybe with that other company on the other side of Lawrence Expressway. Tony