"We are taking a tight look at spending and structure," Otellini said at
the chipmaker's shareholder meeting. "We are going to restructure,
resize and repurpose Intel to adjust to the business realities of today
and tomorrow."
Yep. But at this point in time, all we can expect is for Intel to
quietly shift more resources from IA64 to the 8086. And that means that
odds of more delays in IA64 increase, and each iteration will have
fewwer new features.
Net necessarily. Intel has enough money to finance both processors, and
Intel can use only so many developers on x86.
If I was CEO, I would ask why Intel can have better semiconductor
technologies than AMD, yet AMD has been capable of producing faster
chips, It seems like the parts of Intel that design microprocessors are
not good enough. That problem does not look like a problem that can be
solved by throwing more people at it. It looks like Intel does not have
the right people to work on x86.
Besides, Intel has developed many x86 cores that never came to the
market. Intel may say that they want to introduce a new core every
second year, but it I would not be surprised if half of them never make
it to the market.
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Re: new Itanium after Tukwila: Poulson ... It's only in the last year or 2 that HP and Intel have ... but the workstation market folded.... I just commented on the fact that many people say that Intels's x86...CPUs would not have been as powerful today without AMD. ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: Question to Kerry Main ... "The Itanium is great, it's got a future, and it's selling pretty well ... to be more accurate some in the trade press are reporting that Intel certainly *wants* people to think that Itanic has a future: if you read the above carefully all of it refers to Intel's message rather than expressing the opinion of the author. ... So Itanic has finally managed to acquire a sufficient percentage of the former PA-RISC market, the remnants of the Alpha market, and peripheral contributions from Windows, Linux, and the seven dwarfs who adopted Itanic along with HP to match the nearly 1/3 share of the market that PA-RISC used to enjoy all by itself. ... There's no hope that Itanic will even begin reducing the devastating performance lead that POWER currently enjoys for about the next two years until Tukwila arrives with CSI - and the tepid projection that Tukwila will only double Montecito's performance suggests that on a per-core basis POWER's lead on a per-core basis may instead continue to grow - so, just as has been the case since its ill-fated debut, Itanic seems destined to continue to be sandwiched between ever-increasing x86 capabilities on the low end and unassailable competition on the high end: exactly the opposite of the situation that Intel and HP originally envisioned for it, and hardly a recipe for the kind of overall market domination they invested their $billions to achieve. ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: new Itanium after Tukwila: Poulson ...>>Intel has put in tons of money and raw force to get IA64 to where it ... > They have put even more tons of money on x86.... enhancements to the Montecito core.... the 14 clock cycles current Itanics take to access the L3 cache is there ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: [opensuse] Why are there not more using Linux? ...Dude Sun and Sarc are going no where any time soon... ... Sun is going to abandon the SPARC soon. ... As much as I despise the Intel x86 with its architecture ...Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. ... (SuSE)
Re: Interview with Alan Kay ... This was similar to the 432 experience, and Intel and Siemens ... Anybody who says that Itantic's competition... EPIC is a very interesting architecture and is successful technically ... doesn't run x86 code as fast as Xeon and AMD processors. ... (comp.lang.lisp)
