“RISC on the Desktop: Game Over” - The Slater Perspective

• Compaq, Dell, IBM, HP, Digital, NEC, Sequent,...

  • Vendors Committed to Intel Merced

• SGI and MIPS

  • SGI will produce NT/Intel Products
  • Future of MIPS Undecided

• Sun and SPARC

  • Committed to Solaris/Merced

• Merced will overtake

  • RISC Performance by 2001
  • RISC Workstation/Server Market Share by 2005

• 64-bit NT/Intel Roadmap

  • Intel Builds DEC Alpha for Interim
  • Intel Merced by late 1999

Microprocessor Report Nov. 17, 1997

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