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To: EricRR who wrote (104510)	6/18/2000 4:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ratbert, <Do you have a link for this?> No, I don't. I've seen HP mention several times that they'll be making an eventual transition to IA-64, but I don't feel like digging up links at the moment. <It is my understanding that HP continues to develop there next generation RISC chips,and IBM will FAB it for them (on SOI). Doesn't this show that HP has worries about EPIC?> No, it just means HP still has a large installed base of PA-RISC customers, so they're going to push both IA-64 and PA-RISC. It's the same reason Intel continues pushing IA-32 into the server space, currently with Cascades Xeon, and following with Foster. <And will Mckinley really be about to beat an Alpha? If not, what's the business model? (given the effective backward incompatibility)> I'm guessing McKinley will edge out an Alpha EV7 (which itself will probably arrive at the same time as McKinley, given that schedule slips seem to be the norm over in Alpha-land). But it seems Intel is more concerned about Sun than Alpha, even though UltraSparc is hardly a paragon of pure performance. The real concern, as you mentioned, is the business model. Intel has been real successful driving the SHV (Standard High Volume) model in Xeon-based servers. With IA-64, Intel is hoping to add a real performance boost to an already existing price/performance advantage. As for the backwards compatibility, remember that IA-64 is already hardware-compatible with x86 and with PA-RISC. No doubt performance will suffer, but the compatibility will still allow customers to use their existing base of software, then upgrade their software to native IA-64 versions as they are released. Tenchusatsu