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[chipguy]

Is has plenty of relevance in that I know enough about this field to distinguish
between what is believable and what is BS.

Based on your posts I have seen I beg to differ.

So pardon me if I believe that Ditzel & Co. have a tad more credibility than
some anonymous poster on an Intel message board.

The same Dave Ditzel famously quoted as saying that out of order RISC
processors were more complicated than out of order x86 processors to
justify his failure to bring Sun uPs up to the level of its competitors?
I wonder if TMTA's develoment direction for 8000 is another example
of Ditzel's professional failings/blind spot in action? :-P

The difference is I have no financial stake in the success or failure of TMTA.
But Ditzel & Co. are in a tough spot and their immediate future is tied to
continuing to successfully sell this (IMO) technological snake oil. The question
for you to consider is whether going to the 8000 will give them the combination
of performance, power, and cost to keep them in business for another product
development cycle given that Intel has their niche firmly locked in its gunsights
with Banias and its successors.