Intel acknowledges Itanium flubs, predicts strong future

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Intel execs are brain dead

SUN and IBM make all the money on Sparc and Power, they are system solutions providers, they do the whole hardware and software stack, CPU, server, networking, storage..., operating systems, enterprise software stack and services, the gross margins are very high.

What does INTEL get for Itanium?

Even at $5000 per CPU, Intel is only getting $1 million bucks for the 1000 CPUs it is selling. Right now, HP is making all the money on Itanium.

With its primitive copy-exact methodoly, Intel is tying a FAB line for making a few hundred chips a quarter. This is bad business.

However, without Itanium, Intel becomes a pure AMD64 clone maker. Intel has to continue Itanium for the last bit of pride it has left.

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