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To: William Hunt who wrote (167342)	7/2/2002 5:33:30 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 186894

WH: Excellent point and the same can be said for D and O premiums.JFD

To: William Hunt who wrote (167342)	7/2/2002 6:09:40 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel to release Itanium 2 at two speeds By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 2, 2002, 3:00 PM PT Intel's upcoming Itanium 2 processor will come out at 900MHz and 1GHz, according to sources, and cost about the same as existing Itanium chips. In all, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will release three versions of the 64-bit chip for high-end servers next week: a 1GHz version containing 3MB of level three cache memory, a 1GHz version containing 1.5MB of cache and a 900MHz version containing 1.5MB of cache. The cache-speed variations will allow Intel to sell the chip at different prices, depending on performance. Increasing the clock frequency, measured by megahertz, generally increases performance. As does increasing the size of the cache, a reservoir of memory for rapid data access. Prices will range from about $1,300 for the 900MHz 1.5GHz version to $4,200 for the 3MB version running at 3MB, according to sources. Earlier, Intel said it was coming out with Itanium 2 chips with 1.5MB and 3MB of cache running at 1GHz. Current Itanium processors sell for between $1,177 and $4,227. An Intel representative declined to comment on the release date, prices or the existence of the 900MHz version of the chip but reiterated that the chips with the different cache sizes are geared to different markets. "In mission-critical areas, cache is king," the representative said. Itanium 2, formerly code-named McKinley, is designed to run in workstations and high-end servers containing four to 64 processors. Servers that contain the chip will compete against machines from Sun Microsystems and IBM. While servers containing Intel chips make up the majority of the server market in terms of units, Intel has yet to make a huge dent in the upper echelons of the market. Sixty percent of the revenue spent on servers, in fact, goes to non-Intel machines. The first Itanium chip, released a little more than a year ago, has not sold well. The Itanium 2, however, has been redesigned and will provide better performance, Intel has said. IBM and HP are expected to announce servers based on the chip next week although Dell has said it has no plans yet to adopt Itanium 2.