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Pentium vs. Itanium
Hi all,
I have noticed that there is little/no posting on Itanium and this is an Intel group. Now I know that some/most of you probably think the Itanium is dead/dying but I would still like to know what is going on in the Itanium field. If there is a more appropriate group to which I should post, please let me know. thanks, charles..... |
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***** charles wrote:
Hi all, I have noticed that there is little/no posting on Itanium and this is an Intel group. Now I know that some/most of you probably think the Itanium is dead/dying but I would still like to know what is going on in the Itanium field. If there is a more appropriate group to which I should post, please let me know. No, this is the most appropriate group for Itanium I would say, but hardly anyone cares about it. There have been some recent developments about Itanium: Dual-core Itanium finally ready - ZDNet UK News http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39278436,00.htm It's been largely killed by the Opteron. Not directly, by competing against it directly, but by taking over pretty much all of the ecosystems that Itanium was originally aimed at. It's sort of like weeds killing other plant life by grabbing large tracts of land in which those other plants could've lived in too. Yousuf Khan -- There is no failure, only delayed success |
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Pentium vs. Itanium
* ***** charles:
I have noticed that there is little/no posting on Itanium and this is an Intel group. Right, but since there currently is very little going on with Itanium there is no reason to talk about it... Now I know that some/most of you probably think the Itanium is dead/dying It is dead, even HP (the biggest Itanium vendor) knows this.... but I would still like to know what is going on in the Itanium field. If there is a more appropriate group to which I should post, please let me know. Well, Itanium is an intel cpu but as I said there is not much going on. You will probably find more stuff in manufacturer-specific newsgroups (i.e. comp.sys.hp.hpux) or manufacturer support forums (itrc.hp.com)... Benjamin |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:20:48 GMT, "***** charles"
wrote: Hi all, I have noticed that there is little/no posting on Itanium and this is an Intel group. Now I know that some/most of you probably think the Itanium is dead/dying but I would still like to know what is going on in the Itanium field. If there is a more appropriate group to which I should post, please let me know. thanks, charles..... comp.sys.intel.itanium.itsdeadjim |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:20:48 +0000, ***** charles wrote:
Hi all, I have noticed that there is little/no posting on Itanium and this is an Intel group. Now I know that some/most of you probably think the Itanium is dead/dying but I would still like to know what is going on in the Itanium field. If there is a more appropriate group to which I should post, please let me know. thanks, charles..... It's the Terry Schiavo of CPUs. Intel doesn't seem to have the heart to pull the plug on it but it's been brain dead for a long time. HP has 90% of the Itanium market, which amounts to a few hundred boxes a quarter. |
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Benjamin Gawert wrote:
It is dead, even HP (the biggest Itanium vendor) knows this.... We do? rick jones -- firebug n, the idiot who tosses a lit cigarette out his car window these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... |
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"Rick Jones" wrote in message
... wrote: In article , says... Benjamin Gawert wrote: It is dead, even HP (the biggest Itanium vendor) knows this.... We do? Didn't you get the memo? :-) I guess not rick jones It is too bad about the Itanium. It has "some" good engineering in it and it was supposed to last for the "next 20 years". If only Intel could fiture out how to make them CHEAP. The biggest problem is price that is why AMD64 and EM64T are both blowing it out of the water. later.... |
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***** charles wrote:
It is too bad about the Itanium. It has "some" good engineering in it and it was supposed to last for the "next 20 years". If only Intel could fiture out how to make them CHEAP. The biggest problem is price that is why AMD64 and EM64T are both blowing it out of the water. Not really, Intel had the ability to sell it for very cheap, if it wanted to. Initially, it could've subsidized the price of the Itaniums, and then eventually it could've gotten the price down by simply migrating it to its latest miniaturization process node. However, neither option would've proved to be fruitful, as a cheap processor that nobody wants will only sell slightly better than an expensive processor that nobody wants. It's major problem was, and is, and will always be it's lack of software compatibility. If Itanium had the ability to efficiently run 32-bit x86 software like the Opteron did, then it would've been only a matter of biding time until 64-bit applications start coming in. Opteron simply ran existing 32-bit apps happily, while people slowly (and sometimes speedily) ported those apps to 64-bit. Yousuf Khan |
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