Intel to chip away at Itanium prices

Even Sun is acknowledging that Sparc will die: "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."

Power may be able to hold its own in the future, since IBM already has gotten it to dual-core, and in the near future 90nm. However, Sun knows that it must do something NOW about its UltraSparc architecture. Even UltraSparc's newest chips are slower than 1-year old Pentiums. Unless Sun wants to be the next SGI, they must upgrade their entire UltraSparc line, and they're going to do it with the Opteron.

The Sun/AMD announcement includes development of future technologies inside Opteron that will enable it to run efficiently on 8-way and higher servers, effectively replacing about 90% of Sun's product lineup. The only case where Sun will retain SPARC, for now, is the very high end 15K servers. If SPARC development continues to stagnate as widely expected, however, even that may go out the window.; Posted by: mjuarez_z Posted on: 01/17/04 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

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