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To: maui_dude who wrote (86223)	8/1/2002 11:26:19 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Maui, Re: "Would you (Dan3) care to present evidence (based on Intels announcement) to prove your point ?" You've got to be kidding, right ?? Since when have the FACTS "slowed" Dan3 down ??!! Make It So, Yousef

To: maui_dude who wrote (86223)	8/1/2002 11:52:55 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: 5 years delay would put Merced shipping to mid 1996 The initial effort was shooting for a chip by about 1995. When that collapsed, Intel bought in to HP's work and hoped to ship something by 1998. They've had two pilot releases, so far, and may never ship real product in commercial volumes. It might have been better to say the first version was due to be out 7 years ago, and the second version was due to be out 4 years ago - and we're still counting. If you consider the handfull of demo systems Intel has paid people to play with "shipping", then AMD has already shipped Hammer. Intel had its own effort to gain higher ground in computing as early as February 1991. The company planned to shift from processing data in 32-bit to 64-bit chunks, but the effort was scrapped, as Intel decided the so-called P7 was not revolutionary enough. HP scientists had projected that Intel's architecture, x86, as well as HP's own PA-RISC (precision architecture, reduced instruction set computer), would run out of steam by around the end of the century and said that they wanted to craft something brand new. When HP and Intel first teamed up, they were so mistrustful that they directed their engineers meet at a neutral site and to keep their meeting notes locked in a safe. The aim of their 1994 alliance was to move up the food chain, climbing from PCs to workstations, servers, and supercomputers. Computer makers would be able to take their chips and put hundreds of them into a single machine so they could crunch numbers from enormous databases and solve problems like simulating a nuclear bomb. To offset the risks, each company planned to crank out chips based on its older architectures. The original joint project, IA-64, was supposed to be completed in 1998, according to Eckhard Pfeiffer, former CEO of Compaq. redherring.com