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trlauer said...
"I'm not really too familiar with server technology, but can't the Athlon 64 work well in servers?"'

Yes. AMD makes the Opteron chip, which is what the Athlon64 chip is modeled after. Many server makers, including HP and Sun already sell servers with Opteron chips.

Opterons scale much better than Intel's X86 based (Xeon) server chips, and they wipe the floor with Intel in many database/server benchmarks.

But that's not the point of posters above. The Itanium has a completely different design from the Xeon and AMD64 chip, and this require all of the software to be completely rewritten/recompiled in order for it to work like it should. With the proper software in place, an Itanium server can make both the Opteron and Xeon based servers look like cheap calculators.

The adoption of AMD64 and 64bit WIndows systems will not help Itanium one bit because they are completely different processor architectures.
Posted by: toadlife   Posted on: 01/14/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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The Itanic is DOA...  realitycheck101 | 01/05/05
specialised chips for servers on the way out  hipparchus2000 | 01/06/05
Itanium ahead of its time  Roger Ramjet | 01/06/05
Agree and good points.  Prognosticator | 01/06/05
What about Athon 64 in servers  trlauer | 01/08/05
Yes,  toadlife | 01/14/05

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