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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (109807)	5/8/2000 7:16:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1587095

Re: Re: Questions on Itanium Gopher, I'm not sure if I'll be able to get a straight answer about IA64 stability (or a straight answer on anything for that matter). I agree that IBM made the right move by still going forward with their own platform and taking a "wait and see" attitude with IA64. If I was in charge, I would have canned IA64 efforts last summer when it was clear the processor was already 1 year late and didn't appear to be coming out soon. IMHO, I think IA64 will end up in the same boat as the Ultra Sparc III. By the time it actually gets released, it will be taped out in Mhz and will be obsolete. The question that really gets me is why are we (IBM) developing a SMP board for a competitors 64-bit chip? What are the motives behind this move? chic