Re: future of hp pa-risc processors?

From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 07/22/05 

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 06:18:17 +0200

Pavel Pokorny wrote:

> what is the future (and what is the current stage)
> of hp PA-RISC processsors?

There is no future. PA-RISC will die with the PA-8900 series. HPs
future in this market segment (high end server and supercomputers; the
traditional RISC workstation market is already dead and taken over by
wintel) is the Itanium2 (which despite the negative image is a very
good and powerful processor)...

Investing money in PA-RISC today is riding a dead horse. The only
reason to buy PA-RISC is if Your current infrastructure relies on
PA-RISC and if Your software can't be ported to Itanium easily...

> Is PA-8800 good

yes.

> as compared to Xeon or Opteron?

High end XEONs and Opterons are faster (nothing beats x86 in terms of
bang for the buck).

> Why is it so expensive?

Low volume production...

Benjamin