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To: chic_hearne who wrote (109847)	5/9/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Respond to of 1586876

"I think CPQ is also another company that would give up its 64-bit efforts if there was a solid alternative. There's a huge potential market here for AMD and INTC." I think you need to look at what Compaq has done recently. They abandoned their Tru64 on Itanium effort.. and maybe just as telling posted a very good whitepaper at their HPC website: digital.com showing the defeciencies of IA64 versus Alpha. Not your normal marketing whitepaper. There is solid alternatives and upon close examination Compaq kept the right one. Understand that IA64 is a nice concept but when you consider the Smoking Brick Of Death will be consuming over 150 watts at 800 MHz and tossing out results left and right (i.e. great cache pressure) it may not be a good solution compared to Alpha. Don't get me wrong, IA64 will be a success as it is backed by the almighty Intel. But it will be a success for trailing edge architectures (MIPS, PA-RISC eventually). Rob