Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] News Alert from NYTimes.com: Hewlett-Packardto Buy Compaq (fwd)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Dev Null wrote:

> > In large part because HP at some point apparently became *embarassed* by
> > the fact that they mad nice, sturdy, high-end Unix boxes), and decided to
> > help Intel design the chip (the itanium) that never arrived
>
> At risk of being branded a heretic and burned at the stake at my first MLUG
> meeting, I'd like to point out that Intel/HP have made more progress on the
> Itanium than AMD's have on the Sledgehammer.  Last I checked, AMD are still
> running emulators instead of using prototype chips.

What you say might well be true (I'd have no idea), but the fact is that I
think HP and Intel started work on IA-64 in, what, 1994?  If AMD is
anywhere close to prototyping, they would be moving faster than Intel.
If I had to guess, I'd say that Intel had no idea that they could milk
existing x86 products for as long as they have, but given that they could,
they had no massive incentive to speed up/refine their RISC projects once
they had fallen significantly behind.

jking


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