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To: Y. Samuel Arai who wrote (89674)	1/26/2000 2:39:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571510

Samual - <Intel's IA-64 doomed to fail as the i860 did?> Nice FUD liner Samual. However, note even this skeptical author's conclusion: But an astonishing thing happened. The technical computing market basically ignored the i860 and it quickly vanished off the radar screen. Intel has apparently corrected many of its original mistakes for the launch of the IA-64 family. However, the IA-64 design is inherently far more vulnerable to deficiencies in its compilers than the i860 ever was. So its technological success is far from assured. However, considering the size of the investment and public corporate commitment Intel has placed in IA-64, and the reassurance of x86 compatibility, it is unlikely to be a commercial failure. I don't know why Merced even comes up on the AMD thread anyway. Sanders plainly stated he's not going to compete in the high end server space. PB