get the Alpha technology melded in.

I had written off Itanic until the Alpha deal. Now I give them a chance.

From what I've read, Intel made some pretty bad choices when the designed the Itanic architecture. And, the benchmarks reflect this. I think by the time McKinley hits, it'll still be behind Sun and IBM.

Intel doesn't have a good track record trying to design revolutionary architectures from the ground up -- anyone remember the iAPX-432?

Tony