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Kate, my last post on this subject.

re: What do you want? Names? Nafziger was one of SEVERAL lead Itanium designers.

No Naffziger wasn't just one of several leaders of IPF design teams. He lead the teams that did what I think are the most important IPF designs (McKinley and Montecito). From what I read he was the main guy both times. The fact that at that time there were a small hand full of other guys with a similar function (leading teams that did Merced and Madison) is hence imo less relevant.

re: Why is it signifcant? Because you find it so? Did Andy Glew leaving Intel going to AMD and back to Intel REALLY affect Intel or AMD? nope.

Partly answered above. IPF design team leader for McKinley and Montecito is a relevant guy. Apparently he has been trusted and relied upon for crucial designs for a good reason. Also he took a couple of his designers with him.

EDIT: I see Chipguy addressed part of this already. He differs with me in that he says that it might be good for the rest of the 350 people design team as he was responsible too for the slip of Montecito and might therefore have better prospects at AMD than at Intel. Reasonable enough. I still think it's relevant though (Montecito delay is hardly the only thing on his resume).

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