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To: niceguy767 who wrote (90601)	1/31/2000 11:15:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571235

ng - <I haven't seen hard evidence of it and Q4 financials with flat sequential growth wouldn't give me the warm fuzzies if I owned Intel!> Some of us just have faith, I guess ;-). ng, it is totally within Intel's character to hold its cards to its chest. Even, and maybe especially, for "good" news. There is a time and a place for everything. Heck, I even saw evidence in the AMD Q4 CC that AMD is getting the hang of this. They were not nearly as prone to giving out exact shipment data, as they had in the past. BTW, ISSCC is next Monday, and IDF is coming up also. I would expect to hear some stuff come out of both of these events. PB

To: niceguy767 who wrote (90601)	1/31/2000 11:34:00 AM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571235

ng, more "potential" for iNtEL...Merdud theregister.co.uk Posted 31/01/2000 4:26pm by Mike Magee Intel to go for McKinley before Merced Chipzilla's follow up to the Merced-Itanium platform, McKinley, is likely to beat its predecessor to the market, informed sources told The Register late today. McKinley is close to taping out and the IA-64 development team believes that limited clock speeds on Itanium yields have forced Intel to this conclusion. The Merced-Itanium has so far failed to achieve over 600MHz clock speeds on the part, although Intel and its partners want it to clock at at least 1GHz. McKinley, when it tapes out, a technical chip developer's term for a chip design coming out, will hit 1GHz "straight out of the starting gate", the source added. Over the weekend, persistent rumours and insider emails have suggested that Intel is ramping up Willamette far faster than it originally wanted, and that competition from AMD on the Athlon has forced a re-visiting of its chip development strategies. According to these sources, Willamette did tape out only a few weeks ago. This may also explain why there is a sudden lack of ramp-up to the Coppermine platform. ©