With there own IA-64 chipset compatible with Madis0on deerfield and Mackinley
Feature L4 cache of 64 MB (1 to include off die cache on I2)
They got benchmark also and others ready to shiping.Still waiting for AMD benchmark I want to point out that IBM IA-64 chipset have take around 1.5 year to develope.2 generation is on is way for a long time should be ready for mid 2004 or later
Price is high very more that 50% of the price go on the CPU itsel fthat is way to high.Unless your software need massive FPU and bandwith and this is very important.I bit surprise that a workstation is release before 0.13 I2.Also from what i found I2 is not allwayse faster that a plain P4 on this type of workload.
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