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To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (39291)	11/6/1997 11:35:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joan - Re: "I have a special place in my heart for the 64 bit architecture.:-)" I have a special place in my wallet for the 64 bit architecture. One day, I hope to read an analyst's report about the revenue potential for Intel and the Merced/IA 64. How many CPUs could be sold in 1, 2, 5 years, at what ASP, etc., and how many of these will be in servers, super-servers, workstations, playstations, etc. Couple this with projections for Intel to make this on a 0.18 micron process, transitioning from 8 inch to 12 inch wafers, MERCED design wins by Tandem/Compaq, Dell, IBM, SGI, Sequent, HP, the entire WORLD!, etc. In addition, Intel will be enhancing the Pentium line with Deschutes, Katmai, Willamette... Ah, the future - what promises it holds. I may have to write that report myself! Roll on, Big Silicon! Paul

To: Joan Osland Graffius who wrote (39291)	11/7/1997 12:46:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - 90 miles north of San Francisco, along Highway 101 heading north, is the beautiful coastal county of Mendocino. About 50 miles south of San Francisco, along Highway 101 heading south, is another Mendocino. This Mendocino is not quite as old as the one north of San Francisco. In fact, this Mendocino doesn't quite exist yet - perhaps it will be born in mid-1998, another product in Intel's on going CPU roadmap. The Deschutes device, to be released early next year, will be further enhanced with an onboard L2 SRAM cache of about 128 Kilobytes, with some other additions. This new product will be the Mendocino. It was mentioned peripherally earlier today on the CMP/Computer Reseller News site: crn.com The 128 KiloByte L2 cache, although on the same die, will be controlled by the L2 cache controller - not the L1 controller. It interfaces with the "Backside" bus of the Dual Independent Bus structure - much like the Pentium II and Deschutes. What a day of contrasts. AMD announces that they cannot make/sell their K6 in any kind of volume, and Intel is hard at work making Pentiums, Pentium II's, and Deschutes while busily designing newer chips - Mendocino, Katmai, Willammette, Merced, not to mention all the newer chip sets and SRAMS being designed at various Intel locations. What a day of contrasts. Mendocino! Paul