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[Elmer Phud]

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I think it's pretty incredible that an Itanium 2 submission for high end OLTP is outperforming the best IBM has to offer for Power4.

It is amazing and this is a .18u Al process Itanium2 compared to a Power4 manufactured on IBM's supposedly state of the art .13u 9 metal layer SOI process. The same one AMD can't seem to get to work. The Itanium2, on what is now an almost 2 generation old, 5 metal layer Al process is setting the performance standard. Like you, I'm eager to see how much more distance Madison can put on the field.

EP