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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (102994)	4/28/2000 8:43:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"Rob, if 4-way Foster is going to beat 4-way Itanium, aren't you worried about that same 4-way Foster outperforming just about every other server out there, including Compaq's much-delayed Wildfire?" --- I'm sure you see what you are comparing... you are comparing CPU to Server. No, I'm not worried at all. Being in the server division , you realize there is much more to a server than a CPU. AlphaServers have been somewhat hamstrung of late compared to the rest of the industry. Lagging in MHz and lacking on-chip L2. In the next year or so the story gets much better as L2 comes on-chip with one version of EV68 , the clock gets much faster and we already see DDRSRAM in today's latest rev of ES40 (4 cpu server). The follow-on to the 4 CPU box is a nice one from what I hear. If you look at the great box that Compaq will be selling in the 32 processor Intel space, the Unisys ES7000, it isn't in the same league as Wildfire. Don't get me wrong, more than enough for most folks but Compaq anticipates selling a Billion $$$ worth of Wildfire this year so it is a very good story. How good? Look how well it blows away an S80: ideasinternational.com 60% faster than an S80. Here is where I agree with you fully... the 4 processor Foster and equivalent 4 processor Athlon follow-on will give Itanium a dickens of a time in that space, something I've been saying all along. With 1.2 GHz EV68 later this year and copper-SOI to follow shortly after (whenever) the .18 21264 (EV68) should be a more competitive part than it is currently. Even today, the .25 667 MHz 21264 is leading in SPEC2000. High-bandwidth helps... something Foster and Willamette will be doing better than Itanium so I don't expect Itanium @700 MHZ to do nearly as well at SPEC2000 as EV68 at 1.2 GHz and after July 1st SPEC95 results will no longer be accepted. Itanium not good at SPEC2000 Itanium as good as or less than Foster at tpmC So we wait for McKinley. Rob