Re: Intel 64 bit Pentium seems to be on its way

From: Steve Lionel (Steve.Lionel_at_intel.com)
Date: 06/03/03 

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:50:35 -0400

On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:21:03 GMT, "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> wrote:

>. Intel already bought the hardware guys from DEC, why not
>finish the
>> job and buy the software side too?
>
>Intel has butchered and dropped every piece of software they ever
>bought. I can think of about a dozen software companies Intel has
>purchased over the past 10 years....I don't think any of the products
>those companies offered lasted more than 12-18 months after Intel
>bought them.

Intel *DID* buy (some of) the software side too - at least a lot of the
compiler team, including myself. This was part of the Alpha deal, but most
people fixated on the hardware side at the time. We're working together with
our HP friends to develop industry-leading compilers and tools for Itanium VMS
(and IA-32/Itanium Windows and Linux, with somewhat less involvement of HP.)
This is the traditional DEC compiler team and things are looking good from
where I sit.

Intel has some very good development tool software. Compilers have been a
weak spot, but we're fixing that. See
http://developer.intel.com/software/products/

Steve Lionel
Software Products Development
Intel Corporation

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