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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (111608)	9/27/2000 6:07:19 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu ,>Funny thing is, Itanium will be released next month along with official benchmarks (I think). Sounds good. Care to give a +/- margin of confidence, or whatever they call that thing in the political polls? ;-) (That's on the release part). Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (111608)	9/27/2000 6:23:14 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Tench: Are you sure of Itanium's release? Last I heard was that Itanium was delayed (again) to Q1 2001. And even if it is released, does that mean it will ship on that day or sometime later? Intel's emulator was available but, I believe you had to pay a large fee. AMD's is available for download for free (taking the freeware route (IMHO a better route to get more software available by launch)). BTW, I believe that at some time in the future, both Intel and AMD would activate a mode to use the underlying RISC engine directly. IMHO, the x86 instruction set is removing a lot of performance from all of their platforms. Getting high speed in that mode should not be difficult since all of them have high register counts, scads of execution units, and highly tuned pipelines. These underlying RISC engines are probably some of the best around. It will take some work to validate their operation on general purpose loads but the gains should be worth it. This could also assist in making the final transition away from CISC architectures and become a natural evolution rather than a quick change. Pete

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (111608)	9/27/2000 6:43:20 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, Intel investors, this article talks about 3 of the big 4 and their current and future plans for Intel based (mucho) multiprocessor systems. Xeon, Foster, Itanium and McKinley based all mentioned. Ding dong, where's Dell? Well, Dell doesn't do chipsets and stuff that will be required for the really big stuff. news.cnet.com Tony