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To: jcholewa who wrote (29895)	2/28/2001 7:55:06 PM
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• Itanium server chips. The long-delayed server chip and the precursor to McKinley will come out in the second quarter. "The sheer complexity of the task--the number of variables--was really more work than any of us in the company imagined," Otellini said, explaining why the chip was delayed so many times. "We had to debug it. We have to develop a new chipset. We were working with four (operating systems), one of which was a stable platform" news.cnet.com But in case you were wondering if it really mattered, there was another Register article on the topic: But more significantly, McKinley will be a "major new platform release" with chipset support for Direct Infiniband I/O, and Scalability Port, the latter being high speed I/O for the 870 McKinley chipset. Clearly this makes McKinley a more attractive proposition than it was. But would Merced get these benefits too, even if this meant backporting them? When we put the question to Otellini he said he couldn't say, but added that more details would be made public on Thursday. We put the same question to Duane Zitner. Hewlett Packard's systems chief, he said he "not 100pc sure" but from what he knew, he rated this as a firm no-no. Itanic systems were "test environments" he added, as if we didn't already know. theregister.co.uk