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To: Tony Viola who wrote (154572)	1/9/2002 10:56:13 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Itanium, on the other hand, is not absolutely essential to the immediate future of Intel Intel is already way behind IBM's 64-bit PowerPC, SUN's 64-bit Sparc, and Compaq's 64-bit Alpha - but so is AMD. The PC market is ripe for the move to 64-bits. Itanium may not be absolutely essential to the immediate future of Intel, but it is absolutely essential to the mid-term future of Intel. And this time around, AMD is coming from a base of experience with dual processor workstations, mobile chips, and controls its own platform destiny. Intel has one more year to sort out Itanic, and the whole Itanic strategy is taking on water fairly fast...