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To: EricRR who wrote (5137)	8/16/2000 9:00:28 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 275872

I have always believed that HP is really trying to pull a fast one on Intel and the rest of the IA-64 crowd. HP after all is giving, as in free, these cpu designs to intel. Why would a company do that? HP says that their familiarity with the architecture will give them a competitive advantage in making such systems. Sounds a little vague to me. I think it's because HP is only giving half the VLIW key to intel. Well, I think H.P. is planning at least three more PA-RISC designs (8700,8800,8900). I think the 8700 is due out in very early 2001 about the same time as Itanium. I doubt Itanium will outperform the 8700. I think H.P. has said as much. I don't think many H.P customers will transition to IA 64 until McKinley. If McKinley is late or under performs, there's the PA-RISC 8800 and 8900. So, it looks like H.P. has hedged its bets. By the way, the H.P. PA-RISC designers consider themselves to be the "A" team at H.P. and the McKinley folks the "B" team. Of course, it came from themselves - but frankly, I believe it. THE WATSONYOUTH