Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

chipguy, the term 'workstation' is generally used in this industry to indicate a high end
desktop machine with advanced graphics capability. Yes, a workstation is a desktop.

You can make up any definition you want but the computer vendors and the market research
firms that track the industry clearly distinguish between them. IIRC U.S. sales in 2002 were
divided between $68B in desktops and $2.5B in workstations.

All of this, though, is to detract from the main point: Intel was officially talking
about the 64-bit collaboration with HP in 1994, despite your efforts to redefine the
question to when they showed their first official roadmap.

Do I have to have to explain what a roadmap is to you now? In 1994 they didn't even
identify any specific product let alone a roadmap. What's a roadmap without any roads
or even a single city? A blank piece of paper. You yourself said that disclosure of Merced
came later. The first roadmap was in 1998 which identified the processors McKinley,
Madison, Deerfield and their approximate schedule and performance relationship to
Merced and among themselves.

please don't try to be such an expert spinmeister.

Trying to clue you in on the meaning of terms like desktop, workstation, and roadmap
isn't spin control. It's my good deed for the day. :-P