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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43336)	6/8/2001 8:48:08 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Actually, I worked on the 460GX chipset. Had I actually worked on the Merced processor ... well, let's just say I wouldn't have been as big an Intel advocate as I am right now. ;-) Here's a tough question for ya. Do you think that the whole IA64 thing was, in retrospect, a mistake? (I'm not asking whether Intel should change directions at this point - that's a different question with quite possibly a different answer). I think the answer is clearly "yes". Intel would be in a far stronger position today, in all market segments, if they had stuck with the x86. [But I have to admit that when I was first exposed to IA64, way back in '97 (I had the full specs), I thought it was a good idea. The miserable x86 couldn't keep on going, could it? And now the x86 is the fastest thing around! Intel didn't need a new architecture!]