Itanium: A cautionary tale

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How a big company MISSES a good chance and conversely

how mush smaller ones get to have breakthroughs.

Itanium is STILL Work in Progress. It needs more improvements and more tools to make the transition to it SMOOTH and NOT MARRED with exorbitant efforts and nasty surprises. Intel DID NOT stuck to it and gave up. So did pretty much everyone else, except from SGI which is now stuck with an Itanium that slowly goes to oblivion.

This is pathetic on the part of Intel and HP. I am not thrilled with Itanium-2, nor so much with IA-64, but they both are MUCH better than the xeons and pentiums and all the dinosauric 64 bit 80x86 monsters that Intel decided to resurrect.

IA-64 needs refinments as does Itanium. What is strange to me, is how on earth Intel was supposedly planning the Itanium for the high end server and HPC markets, but neither bothered to design the appropriate chipsets, nor did they design a high capacity interconnect and ccNUMA protocol.

Intel can succeed but they need to focus on long-term benefits and get over their desire for immediate cash inflow. They have to keep pushing for it.

I do like AMD because they stuck to their guns and finally delivered the right solution for the right market niche. I DO NOT like the 80x86 ISA becomming 64 bit ofcourse. This is prolonging something that should had died 10 years ago (or more).

Imagine how humorous would be a situation where AMD would take over Itanium-2 improvement plans!

Posted by: michael_t   Posted on: 12/08/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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