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This was Barrett's take at the time and he was right in the end only it was the P6 Pentium Pro's descendants that became the ubiquitous architecture not P7's Itanium.

http://www.embeddedlinks.com/chipdir/oth/p7.txt

Date: 3 Mar 95, San Francisco, Calif. -- The alliance Intel Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company formed last year to design a future generation computer processing architecture will show fruit in 1997 in the P7 chip, Intel's Chief Operating Officer Craig Barrett said.

Intel's COO told a reporter from Reuters News Service that engineering teams from the two companies joined up last summer to work on a P7 design. That collaboration is underway while a team of Intel-only engineers complete development of the P6 which Intel expects to ship to manufacturers this year.

Speaking at the Robertson, Stephens & Co. technology conference, Barrett would not discuss the architectural direction of the P7 work beyond saying, "I think there will be a lot of innovation in the P7."

Another feature of processing architecture Barrett spoke of as likely in the future is standardization of various sizes of computers on one architecture.

"In the future, you'll see the same basic computer architecture all the way from the PC (personal computer), to servers and massively parallel processing computers," Reuters quoted him as saying.

Barrett did not specify that one aim of the P7 is to make it usable for large parallel processing computers as well as on PCs, but he did say that scalability was both an Intel aim and an industry trend.