Intel to chip away at Itanium prices

IBM, Sun seek to protect their own architectures: "..IBM, Sun Microsystems and others are promoting the Opteron chip from amd.."

The last thing Sun and IBM want is for Itanium to commoditize the high end enterprise where the big bucks are. They know that the 20 year old X86 architecture that Opteron is based on provides no competition in the long run to Sparc and Power. Opteron is the perfect block to keep Itanium from gaining traction. If that strategy succeeds, the very high end will remain proprietary and profitable.; Posted by: Prognosticator Posted on: 01/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Itanium Too expensive slknik | 01/13/04

It is backwards compatible Prognosticator | 01/14/04

Itainium shall prevail! gordon@... | 01/14/04

Typical Intel FUD mjuarez_z | 01/17/04

Architecture Issue rabban192 | 01/14/04

RE: Architecture Issue middle of nowhere | 01/15/04

Architecture Issue rabban192 | 01/15/04

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