----- Original Message -----
From: Damien Mc Kenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 2:28 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Choose Pentium? OR 586?
> >It has been code named Merced for the last 4 years or so..
>
> BING! Wrong. Merced is a different technology (IA-64) that HP is
> designing for Intel using some of the HP-PA wizardry. The first chip
> in that series seems like it won't be much faster than the 786 chips
> due next year...
> ... which are called Williamette. They'll be Intel's first official
> 786 chips and will probably have a number of similar tricks to AMD's
> Athlon to speed things up yet again.
>
Umm.. Sorry, but you are in fact, incorrect...
Go to this site...
http://developer.intel.com/design/IA64/index.htm?iid=search+IA642&;
And, if you go to this page, you will see the IA-32 is targeted at mainstram
desktop, mobile, and low end server/workstations while the IA-64 (Merced) is
targeted at high-end servers.
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/MPF1097A.HTM
The Merced (aka Itanium) uses the IA-64 architecture which is backward
compatible with IA-32.. But the Willamete design is IA-32 only.. Not IA-64.
