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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (73700)	3/6/2002 1:24:19 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

wannab, your point B does not make any sense: either A:... or B:Yamhill does exist, but only as some technology originally planned to happen distantly in the future Why would Intel not want it to be implemented ASAP, since AMD is ahead in this area? If you are suggesting that i86-64 started a long, long time ago, I would say anything done without a specific core in mind is almost irrelevant. 64-bit capability, at least as it is implemented in the Hammer series, is not something that can be "added on" to a core like SSE. Hammer was conceived from the beginning as a 64-bit CPU. I agree with you that Intel will continue IA-64 at least through the McKinley, and that i86-64 has much less to do with the success or failure of Itanic/McKinley than it has to do with the competitiveness of Intel's IA32 offerings compared to AMD. I also don't believe that Intel is going to wait around and see how well Hammer does. I believe they have already committed internally to continuing with Yamhill development, full steam ahead, until it is either a) Brought to market or b) AMD fails miserably with Hammer. In that case, Intel may cancel the i86-64 chip, but won't cancel it if McKinley is a raging success at that point in time. This means there are two parallel teams designing the Prescott core. The original Prescott may be ready by mid 2003 and the Prescott with i86-64 somewhat later. It will probably have other improvements as well, as alluded to by the HP spokesperson. Petz