We love the sound of breaking, [Eva] Glass Ron Curry was formerly on the Intel Itanium team and said that he'd talked to software ISVs about the Itanium shortly after the firm announced its plans for the chip. He said a far more interesting thing too. According to Curry, Intel's "competitor" - that's AMD of course, took advantage of the work it had done. He said that the competitor announced its move into the 64-32 arena largely based on the work Intel had done.