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To: Road Walker who wrote (98431)	2/7/2000 8:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

John - Re: "Do you have a feel at this point for the performance advantage/disadvantage of this years Itanium versus the competition?" It all depends on system configurations and software. At 800 MHz, the ITanium will be several hundred MHz FASTER than any shipping Sun UltraSparc processor - I think they are today WELL BELOW 500 MHz. However, SUN's large servers have excellent CPU scalability - up to 64 CPUS and beyond - and their Solaris OS supports these processors extremely well. Now, it all depends on chip set support and scalability from Intel's partners ( HP, IBM, Compaq, SCO, Red Hat/Cygnus and SUN !) and the software development for the OS's - they need to support 8, 16, 32 and 64 way SMP configurations as well as SUN's Solaris supports UltraSparc. Intel itself is initially supporting 4-way SMP ITanium configurations with the 460GX chip set. Paul