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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (2191)	11/13/2002 11:06:31 AM
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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (2191)	11/13/2002 2:48:03 PM
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Just one persons view, ya know. Say where is Paul Engle when y need 'im. Hewlett Packard developed the Intel Itanium 2 What were the Intel designers doing? Holidaying in Palm Springs? By Mike Magee: Wednesday 13 November 2002, 18:32 A LEARNED PAPER titled The Implementation of the Itanium 2 Microprocessor seems to indicate that HP was more responsible for designing this superchip than Intel engineers. What were the 64-bit Intel designers doing? Working on Yamhill? What's really odd is that last year Compaq ceded its Alpha designers to Intel, effectively giving Chipzilla the pole position in the 64-bit field, and leaving only Sun Microsystems and IBM to compete on big end tin. Is this what Intel paid for acquiring the Alpha technology -- getting HP designers to help it out? Just a few weeks after that, HP announced it would be acquiring Compaq, meaning it would acquire the ex-DEC people who introduced the Alpha -- "good until the year 2025" -- and consigning it to an early desuetude. The Alpha was launched ten years ago, almost to the day. FAB 6 broke ground and the Alpha architecture was introduced. An article in Volume 37, Number 11 of the IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, November 2002, is written by Samuel Naffziger, Glenn Colon-Benet, Timothy Fischer, Reid Riedlinger, Thomas J Sullivan and Tom Grutkowski. Naffziger, Colon-Benet, Fischer, Riedlinger and Sullivan all work for HP, and have long pedigrees at the firm. The gang of five seem to take most of the credit for Intel's latest ship. The only Intel contributor to the paper is Tom Grutkowski, who has been with Intel since 1994 and worked on the Pentium II, the Itanium and the Itanium II. The Itanium 2, which the chip boffins call the 64-b, is the second generation of the Itanium, which, the paper adds, is called "explicitly parallel instruction computing". That's EPIC, which HP brought to the 64-bit party years and years ago. Last year, Intel told the INQUIRER that HP would be on a "level playing field" with other Itanium vendors, and that other PC companies would be able to compete with it on an equal basis. So it appears it's no coincidence that HP's Itanium 2 chipset is faster than anyone else's – including Intel's own implementation – which still hasn't got a firm shipping date for its Tiger 2 Itanic box. What's happened to all the 64-bit Intel engineers, we ask again? µ