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To: Charles R who wrote (23013)	12/22/2000 12:59:49 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Intel's Itanic, McKinley chips go misty eyed theregister.co.uk Where it appears that the "dozens of support vendors, just waiting for launch to jump into the fray", (is that different than going down with the ship?) will be dealing with the vagaries of "permanent pilot production" for a while longer. Intel has decided to give it a rest on hard and fast dates for the release of its 64-bit Itanium and McKinley microprocessors, and instead will carry on with pilot schemes for the chips. At last August's Intel Developer Forum, the firm came under criticism for pushing back the date the Itanium was supposed to launch, with this organ suggesting it abandon hard and fast dates for this species of chip. Both McKinley and Itanium are targeted at the workstation and number-crunching sector of the market, with the latest roadmap showing pilot schemes for both these chips throughout 2001. The McKinley pilot will kick off in Q4 of this year, and according to a roadmap we saw, Intel has now decided that such releases will "vary from product to product". That, said the notes, "makes it difficult to state with certainty a platform release date." It is telling PC manufacturers who have committed to making machines using its 64-bit microprocessors that they can "use this to derive approximate windows for expected platform release dates". Trouble with an approximate window, we guess, is that it's pretty hard to know where and when to look in or out. McKinley will use the 870 chipset but Intel is attempting to address the needs of its corporate customers by introducing Prestonia, the 860 chipset, and a "placer" variant of this chipset. Is Prestonia anywhere near Freedonia? The rest of that article contains perhaps more relevant roadmap ruminations, from a competitive standpoint. Cheers, Dan.