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Itanium ahead of its time
People tend to ignore the pure "64-bitness" of Itanium. Opteron and Nocona can sure get around the memory constraints of older x86 architecture, but anyone who sees a side-by-side comparision of the branch prediction, pipelining and full complement of registers (and understands what they represent) will surely understand where each design has strengths and weaknesses.

Remember also, that the rocket scientists that designed Alpha (and I mean that as a compliment) are now working for both AMD and Intel. We can expect to see more great things from both companies, so why not kick back and enjoy the show? In the long run, consumers benefit from the competition, and it'll become painfully obvious once the 64-bit ecosystems evolve just where each architecure fits.

As my old buddy Fritz Dressler once said "Prediciting the future is easy .. It's understanding what's goung on right now that's hard."
Posted by: jklincewicz   Posted on: 09/27/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Itanium is done  Jeff Spicoli | 09/24/04
Not so fast, Jeff . . .  Plain Logic | 09/25/04
Beginning of the end  John L. Ries | 09/25/04
aaaahhh..  ParadigmOdyssey | 09/27/04
Itanium ahead of its time  Roger Ramjet | 09/27/04
Itanium ahead of its time  jklincewicz | 09/27/04
obsolencence  terracell | 09/27/04

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