Re: New itaniums out at 2.5x perform gain


"Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"We're working pretty hard to get it to a profitable product," said Pat
Gelsinger, senior VP of Intel's digital enterprise group, in an interview
following a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday. "If we could unwind
the clock, I would have just built a RAS version of Xeon to attack the
market," he said, using an industry term for "reliable, highly available,
and scalable" chips, and referring to Intel's Xeon server chips, which
employ the widely used x86 instruction set. Itanium uses a less popular
design called EPIC.
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When a company makes this kind of statement in public, they are testing
the
waters. Now let's see what the investment community says about this.

Yikes!
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6096207.html?tag=nl.e589
Intel has just announced a 57 percent drop in income.
I wonder what those suits will chop first?

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html
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