[Info-vax] RealWorldTech on Poulson

[Neil Rieck]

On Jul 4, 10:44 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > between. Intel has invested (spent? wasted?) a lot of ** HP's ** money on
> > Itanium. Maybe this is their last kick at the cat to recover that
> > money.
>
> Corrected your post for you by adding "HP's"

While not wanting to split hairs (or is it hares?) here, Intel got
into bed with HP in 1994 IIRC. So at this point I don't know who spent
the most amount of money. Intel picked up 300+ Alpha Engineers just
around the time of the HPQ merger, then we saw Alpha's CSI appear as
QPI on the Core-i7 so I think it is safe to assume that Intel didn't
pull a Dilbert on the Alpha engineers, or their technology, or there
know-how.

HP didn't have a problem getting into bed with Intel so I always
wonder how things might have turned out for DEC had they outsourced
the Alpha FAB work to Intel (or Samsung).

NSR.