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Intel to throw $10 Billion at Itanium along with HP
”The Itanium processors were designed to outperform all the other server chips, including x86, Power and Sparc. However, the new architecture faced numerous delays and performance-vise was not impressive from the start. But while Dell and IBM ceased making Itanium-based machines, 70 of the Fortune 100 corporations utilizing or planning Itanium solutions deployments, Intel says.”
Many others in the past have stopped supporting Itanium in various areas, including most recently Microsoft(at least partially). It will be an uphill battle for Intel, but with the huge financial backing and their position as the number one CPU developer in the world, they just might get their way.
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jmag034
on January 27, 2006 10:25 PM |
Intel must have the extra money to throw away. That or they feel a direct threat from AMD. |
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MonkeyMan
on January 27, 2006 10:29 PM |
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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Nic
on January 28, 2006 7:15 AM |
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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shounen
on January 28, 2006 7:19 PM |
i bet its the threat from AMD... |
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nathanskywalker
on January 28, 2006 9:05 PM |
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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shounen
on January 28, 2006 9:12 PM |
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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gamingmage
on January 28, 2006 9:43 PM |
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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Nic
on January 29, 2006 5:01 AM |
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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Nodsu
on January 29, 2006 12:28 PM |
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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