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Intel has publicly committed to the merged Xeon / Itanium platform in 2007, and they need both Whitefield and Tukwila to get there.


Right, but my point was, which I probably did not explain suffciently, is that having issues with a design 1.5 years prior to release is nothing unusual, or unexpected, and so, CharlieD's charaterization of this as some sort of big "news" strikes me as sensationalism, at best. I guess I shouldn't be surprised at that, since after all, it is the Inq. Tell me something Alan, how many designs have you worked on, that worked as expected, 1.5 - 2 years prior to the scheduled introduction? For me, the count so far over my 25 year career, is zero.

BTW, the stuff I'm working on now, is also scheduled for 2007 introduction, and right now, it doesn't work exactly like I initially hoped it would...... either