Re: Intel releases 64bit Xeon

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:57:41 +0000

Rob Young wrote:
> In article <7500353b.0402250435.20b983f1@posting.google.com>, mistdragon@zdnetonebox.com (mist dragon) writes:
>
>>And the winner is #1.
>>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/35799.html
>>
>
>
> At first, I thought what you wrote below was a quote from
> the article...
>
>
>>HP has introduced Opteron servers and tells that it wont dent Itanium
>>sales. Opterons are available with Linux and later on on Windows.
>>Itanium is dedicated to high end only....
>
>
> I guess the low voltage versions of Itanium don't count?
>
> Deerfield (low voltage McKinley) for instance?
>

No because as you know perfectly well the LV Itaniums
are rather slower than cheaper faster x86 and Opteron
based systems.

>
>>In practice that means systems from 64 CPU's upwards...
>>
>
>
> Ah... you wish.
>
> How many Itaniums are currently under development or nearing completion?
> Not counting Madison 9M?
>
> LV = low voltage
>
> Fanwood
> LV Fanwood
> Montecito
> Millington
> LV Millington
> Tukwila
> Dimona (another multi-core Itanium)
>
> Seven or so ... according to Intel.
>

Does it matter ? What Itanium has proved conclusively is
that having the biggest development budget in microprocessor
history does not guarantee sucess.

Regards
Andrew Harrison

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