4 Sep
2001
4 Sep
'01
2:15 p.m.
At 02:44 PM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Carlos Murillo wrote:
IBM was a latecomer in the alliance. At the time this was agreed,
DEC's Alpha outclocked all other mass-production cpus, but Intel
was outspending everyone in production technology research.
IA64 is the result of a chain of decisions that started a long
time ago.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
HP needed better production technology than what
they had in
order for their new chip design to stick. The choices were DEC,
Intel and IBM. Guess what happened.
IBM is doing the multi-layer ceramic interconnect packaging for the
Itanium.