Re: Intel to sell itanium?

Dave Froble wrote:
Jeez, will you get a clue? To my knowledge, Intel has not fabbed Alphas
for quite a while. IBM is the supplier of Alpha chips.

OK then. HP could go to IBM and get a new batch of alpha chips fabbed.
Point is that if HP wants, they can get more Alpha EV79 fabbed, and I
wouldn't be surprised if there was some room for another speed bump on it.

The entire story of selling the itanic just isn't believable. Can you
tell me just who needs such a large money pit?

A buyer of IA64 woudln't be buying it to maintain IA64, it would be
buying it to gain access to patents. And Intel could claim that they
hace recuperated some of its investment into a big heavy slow moving
monster. You can bet that Intel would state something to the order of
"tersm of the transations were not made public".

Intel could also do something akin to what PSION did to offload its
EPOC32 OS: create a consortium to own IA64 with Intel still a big
shareholder, and Intel could slowly sell shares to another member of the
consortium until Intel was no longer a shareholder at all. The recently
formed IA64 solutions alliance might be the foundation for such a consortium.

Intel could then bill that alliance for engineering work that needs to
be done to IA64 and then the alliance could find a FABbing contractor
(likely intel again).
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