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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (130555)	3/21/2001 2:15:55 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten & Intel Investors - Some ITanium benchmarks have been posted by some folks at Indiana University. physics.indiana.edu These are a bit arcane, but the folks there seem pretty impressed with the ITanium performance. Three ITanium systems were tested - including one running at 800 MHz with 4 MB L3 (?) cache and 2 GigaBytes DRAM memory. So - this does show that 800 MHz ITaniums do indeed exist ! Paul

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (130555)	3/21/2001 10:20:41 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Ten, RE: "Winstone " Inside that winstone is a chip. And if the chip could only be faster... The big picture is: let's be glad Microsoft keeps supplying innovative software that keeps demanding more processing power and better chip performance. If this wasn't the case, the chip business could be commoditized. Fortunately, .NET requires more chip power, and the way .NET's common standards allow for the proliferation of devices, written to a common (and now OPEN) standard, this should give the chip business a nice jump, I believe. The OPENness is significant: this is the heart of the issue in the anti-trust case. (Not that any of the industry analysts have figured the following out because this is too technical, but basically, the openness of this standard allows Microsoft to be rather innoculated from any antitrust imposed split up.) One post I had made about 2 years ago said I was VERY concerned over the negative impact to innovation that would ensue, if Microsoft was split. This concern was because for innovation to happen, industry standards have to exist in order to grow the market. The splitting of Microsoft threatened innovation by threatening the cohesiveness of compatibility of products written to a standard. However, Microsoft has even solved this problem by creating a cohesive layer, yet at the same time, satisfying anti-trust concerns by enabling openness above it. By making the standard open this solves the problem the industry may have had with innovation, yet by creating a cohesive core layer, this promotes compatibility. Gates and crew seemed to have come up with a great way to enhance innovation by creating open standards, yet balancing this out with the need for compatibility by creating a cohesive core to promote compatibility. This is definitely cool and I believe it will be big for Microsoft and the chip players. Regards, Amy J