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To: Joe NYC who wrote (85298)	7/18/2002 3:51:22 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 275872

Some info from Platform Conference: Itanic OEM slams Itanic By Andrew Orlowski in London Posted: 17/07/2002 at 22:25 GMT NEC's chief architect Len Tsai launched an astonishing attack on Intel's Itanium processor at Bert McComas' Platforms Conference in San Jose today. Tsai stunned the room by describing Intel's approach as "brute force", and predicted that learning the new instruction set would take "half a generation". He said NEC - which shipped its Itanic2 servers last week, had not seen any demand for the ten-year old processor. Maybe Tsai is simply feeling unloved According to one Register reader within earshot of Tsai today, NEC is unhappy that Hewlett Packard - which co-developed the Itanic with Intel - gets preferential access to Itanium technology. theregister.co.uk Panel debates the merits of Itanium By Ashlee Vance July 17, 2002 1:04 pm PT SAN JOSE, CALIF. - A panel of chip experts took aim at Intel's Itanium processor at a conference Tuesday with rivals and even an Itanium server seller saying a transition to the new chip will take many years and will require huge investments in both money and time. Executives from Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, NEC, and Hewlett-Packard gathered at the Platform Conference here to debate the merits of 64-bit processors and battle over which vendor architectures will dominate the market over the next few years. Panel debates the merits of Itanium ...Brookwood predicted that AMD and Intel chips will outperform all of the RISC processors on some industry benchmarks by 2003 and then increase their lead in 2004. "Industry standard processors will claim the performance lead over proprietary processors like SPARC [Sun] and Power [IBM] in the coming future," Brookwood said. infoworld.com Joe

To: Joe NYC who wrote (85298)	7/18/2002 7:23:04 AM
From: Neil Booth	Respond to of 275872

I hope they kill some of the older POS instructions too. WTF have they kept XLAT and other baggage? With another generation or two they could drop the legacy crap and have a really nice 64-bit instruction set. Neil.