Re: Intel Itanium's very survival in doubt - inquirer article

From: Andrew Harrison (andrew_remove_.harrison_at__remove_.sun.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 22:45:38 +0100

Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:

> Just curious, how many years and how many billions have been dumped,
> excuse me, invested into Itanic? What do you suppose is the upper limit
> of a negative ROI before Intel must cut its losses?
>

Itanium is the based on PA-WW (Wide Word) which has its origins
in work done by Cydrome. The project started at HP proper in 1990
staffed by engineers aquired from Cydrome.

Intel joined, was suckered into a joint development in 1994.

The WSJ suggested that Intel and HP between them have sunk
a total of 5 billion dollars into Itanium, however that count
was conducted 18 months ago so add another billion.

Regards
Andrew Harrison
> Barry
>

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