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Spotted on a campus, Intel Tejas CPU t-shirt
The guy, visiting his old campus, was wearing a Tejas CPU Development t-shirt, and this natty piece of wear - guaranteed to keep you warm during Alaskan winters -- sports the flags of both California and Texas.
We don't have a snap, unfortunately, but that doesn't matter this time round.
The t-shirt suggests to us that desktop supremo Louis "XIII" Burns is still hoping that the Tejas will be a super chip that will thrash the pants off anything from the opposition at IBM and/or AMD. And the Dothan-Banias team, also opposition.
The last time the INQ saw anything like this was the famous Itanium development team's logo - on t shirts and on cups - which suggested the 64-bit chip would be the next wave of computing.
We're sort of getting the feeling that the big political fight within Intel has hardly just begun. What happens, for example, if Chipzilla goes back to using RDRAM, perhaps integrating a controller on die?
You thought the RDRAM tendency in Intel was dead, didn't you? Don't forget that Chipzilla is a broad church, and part of the cultural setup there is that one team is encouraged to fight tooth and nails against another team.
On the top, everything looks tranquil. But underneath the surface of the Intel ocean, barracudas and sharks snap at each other, seahorses gently graze, and starfishes just wait for the opportunity to embrace the odd mollusc. µ
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