Intel to throw $10 Billion at Itanium along with HP

User Comments: 9

1. January 27, 2006 10:25 PM
   jmag034 said:
   Intel must have the extra money to throw away. That or they feel a direct threat from AMD.
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2. January 27, 2006 10:29 PM
   MonkeyMan said:
   That is alot of money, but I think it is work it, because investing in that chip, will no doubt make them big bucks. Probably even moreso than 4 billion dollars. Intel is improving their company line, and they are starting with investments.
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3. January 28, 2006 7:15 AM
   Nic said:
   If Intel do well with Itanium, then this could mess up the market for AMD, as server software may drop support for x86 architecture. This would be a bad thing as most desktop PCs will still be x86 based. Itanium's success would be Intel's trump card to recover the market share they are losing to AMD.
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4. January 28, 2006 7:19 PM
   shounen said:
   i bet its the threat from AMD...
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5. January 28, 2006 9:05 PM
   nathanskywalker said:
   Defintion...[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium[/url]Po
   er consumption....[url]http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200
   0128-6071.html[/url]32 bit capabilities dropped....[url]http://www.ciocentral.com/article/Intel+Drop
   +HardwareBased+32Bit+Capabilties+in+Itanium/169700_1.aspx[
   url]and something else...[url]http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6032148.html[
   url]Intel and x86....[url]http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cf
   ?featureid=2194&inkc=0[/url]Hmm....wow, that is one big investment...And unless they can sell this technology relativily cheap, it had better be a big inmprovement if intel really wants to profit. As to why they are doing this....[quote] i bet its the threat from AMD... [/quote]Possible....but that is kind of vauge, are you saying that AMD is a threat to Intel? Well that has been the case for quite sometime, and yes, it would make sense for intel to try to beat them.....but that is a rather large investment....and....[quote] If Intel do well with Itanium, then this could mess up the market for AMD, [/quote]I don't think AMD will be seriously threatend by this move. Even if Intel does managee this, AMD has beaten Intel beofre....more than once...and while the standard Opteron may not be quite enough to challenge itanium, i odn't thin AMD is really under any real threat of major loss. Intel has failed to meet specifications before, for example, the new Imacs... Of course, the itanium technology will hardly be a fluke if it does work, but i think AMD can beat them again, and if they don't, it will be little more than a minor setback.
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6. January 28, 2006 9:12 PM
   shounen said:
   what i meant was intel must be doing it to jus come to the same standards as AMD. sry for the vaugeness
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7. January 28, 2006 9:43 PM
   gamingmage said:
   Maybe this will stick this time and people will want to buy it. But, don't they already have the Xeon out for servers? I think that they should try to improve what they have not go somewhere different.
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8. January 29, 2006 5:01 AM
   Nic said:
   The server market is where all the big profits are made, and that's the market AMD has been trying to crack for years, and are only now starting to make a dent in. Intel's move to Itanium is an attempt to lock out AMD because it would set AMD back several years trying to catch up with the new architecture. Asuccess for Intel with Itanium could seriously screw up the profitability of AMD as they try to compete. Just look at how AMD Opteron is screwing up Intel's market at the moment, and that is still an x86 class chip. It isn't easy to catch up.
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9. January 29, 2006 12:28 PM
   Nodsu said:
   Itanium is a joke.. Intel has been pouring money in the thing for years, and the only market where it has had any direct impact is supercomputing. Yes, indirectly Itanium killed off some RISC CPU architectures like Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC and Intel probably got some of that market to their Xeons. 70 out of Fortune 100 are using/considering Itanium? Well, given that a while back Intel was giving away Itanium servers virtually for free, sure, a large corporation may grab some box es for evaluation. Doesn't mean anything.No, AMD will never "catch up" with Itanium - no point in trying to duplicate this useless architecture, not to mention the patents minefield (and designing a CPU from scratch costs a fortune anyway). Unlike x86, AMD has no intellectual rights to the Itanium archtitecture.This is just some FUD to hopefully keep some people from fleeing to POWER/SPARC/Opteron.
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