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To: Dan3 who wrote (166807)	6/22/2002 10:48:44 AM
From: semiconeng	Respond to of 186894

It was a long, hard, 4 years in development, but the production release of Merced / Itanium in 1998 was worth the wait. What's that? Itanium missed its 1998 scheduled date? Did it ship in 1999? Did it ship in 2000? Did it ship in 2001? Will there be anything but "pilot" systems and freebee's from Intel in 2002? Isn't the expected cancellation date for the whole sorry mess 2003? ---Well, yes Dan, there will be more than "Pilot Systems" in 2002....... Intel will roll out Itanium 2 this summer at prices expected to range from $2,000 to $4,000. More than 20 OEMs — about half of them small regional outfits in Russia, China, Brazil and elsewhere — will ship 10 unique designs based on Itanium 2 by the end of the year, according to Vaughn Mackie, an Intel marketing manager. "Intel's volume will drive the process technology and I think that will make them the hands-down leader in the long run," said Dave Houseman, chief technologist of Unisys Corp.'s Systems and Technologies Division (Blue Bell, Pa.), which will offer 32-way Itanium 2 systems this year using some of its own ASICs. eet.com; ---The difference Dan, is that Intel is not "gasping" it's last breath on it's current processor offerings, like Athlon is, and it's not betting the Company (Again) on it's 64 bit Chip, like Claw, and Opteron is. Gotta Get To Hammer...........Or Else............ Semi