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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (34162)	7/23/2002 5:40:55 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Respond to of 213182

The Itanium II CPU is out - and can be used. The price is 3000+$US (for the fastest, largest cache version). I don't think many run of the mill desktop owners will be willing to pay that to browse the web. The CPU is currently used in 4+ way servers, and is meant to dethrone SUN, IBM and the rest of the server manufacturers. 60% of the server revenue comes from a small volume piece of the pie - and that is what Itanium II is currently being targetted at. Smaller cache variants meant for mass consumption are going to be follow on products.