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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (112528)	10/5/2000 4:41:59 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Now, if McKinley were simply a drop-in replacement for Itanium, it would be a different story. But McKinley will be paired up with a brand new chipset and featured on brand new server platforms. There are going to be some migration issues involved, so for a while, at least, both Itanium and McKinley-based servers will be available on the market. My guess will be that Intel will drop the price of Itanium just before this overlap occurs. Don't forget that all the software will have to be recompiled for McKinley with new "smart" compilers, now that the microarchecture has changed.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (112528)	10/5/2000 4:44:33 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Ten, Itanium and McKinley could also fill different parts of the market, sort of a segmentation thing for servers. Itanium could be for mid-range applications that currently use an eight way Xeon server, or 2, 3, or more in a cluster. McKinley would be more for upper range applications: databases, data warehousing, the back end server for high demand e-commerce aplications. So, they could co-exist for a long time. It's going to be fun watching the big silicon (™ P. Engel) roll out in serious servers. Tony