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Itanium is part of Intel's problem

Sorry while the x86 is not a good architecture, Intel proved that you could create worse with the Itanium! When Itanic first came out it was supposet to be a desktop, workstation, and all servers chip, NOW Intel is saying high end servers (i.e. those the z86 platforms don't reach). Since within a year AMD will have off the shelf components for a 32-way that is a damm small market.

When Intel first put out Itanic they bragged about all the desktops and workstations that had it, turns out they were all freebies from Intel, and most customers didn't turn them on after the first month!

I used to do compilers and there is not another chip out there that isn't easier to do good code generation than Itanic. For general purpose applications, one execution stream is 1x performance, two streams is roughly 1.7x performance, three goes into the 1.9x level and four is roughly 2x with performance flat or going down after that. The figures in the last sentence were in a number of reports from the 1960's to the early 1990's. Now Itanium starts with 6 streasms, which is pretty stupid.

Posted by: oldsysprog   Posted on: 09/25/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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