Re: Sun using the "I" word

From: Robert Deininger (rdeininger_at_mindspringdot.com)
Date: 09/15/05 

Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:25:01 GMT

In article <432917E8.294CCAF5@teksavvy.com>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote:

...

>At least Alpha was a leader and wasn't needing to play catch up all the
>time. And had Alpha been given the same amount of resources that IA64,
>EV7 would have been released on time and made very difficult for its
competitors.

That is nonsense. The Alpha EV7 schedule was driven by the need to fix
critical bugs, and that is an area where more funding and more people
really don't help much. How would you have deployed additional resoureces
to speed up the debug process? How would you have cut the time required
for the needed designed changes to propagate through the factory and turn
into real silicon?

>So Intel needs to decide whether its money/resources are better spent
>improving the 8086, or splitting effort between the two, allowing AMD to
>retain its lead in the 8086 market (the one that really counts).
>
>The fact that there have been news recently of engineers being shifted
>from IA64 to 8086 is an indication that Intel understands what is really
>important. But if this results in IA64 projects taking a little longer
>to complete, it will result in a chip that is even less competitive.

Nobody outside Intel really knows what those engineers are doing.

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