Re: Intel/Hp spend $10 billion on IA64

Dave Froble wrote:
> In a way, we can consider AMD's wrench thrown into the works as an
> instance of the technology people beating the money people. Intel
> intended to lock up the processor world with the itanic.


In the series of articles pointed to my Niel Rieck, that author presents
an interesting scenario:

Intel used Itanium as a scare tactic to force all other enterprise chips
to perform harakiri sooner rather than later. When you look at it,
except for Power, Intel succeeded. It got HP to jump into the intel
bandwagon first, killing off Pa-Risc, then MIPS followed, then Alpha.
SPARC almost fell into the IA64 bible predictions but didn't (but will
fall with the prediction that the 8086 will be supreme leader).

Power remains, but has now been marginalised by the departure of Apple.
Apple may have been relatively low volume and high maintenance for IBM,
but it was also high visibility. Power now becomes a hidden chip in game
consoles and some special IBM high end machines.

Pretty amazing that Intel was able to get competitors to kill off their
high end chips even before IA64 was out.

In the gang, Sun is the smartest. Keeping SPARC and not announcing its
demise until the 8086 will have grown enough.

HP and Compaq prematurely announced the end of their own chips and set
timetables difficult to change to adapt to delays with that IA64 thing.
.

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