Re: Intel misses Itanium sales (...SGI moved just over 1,000 boxes...)

mapesdhs_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: 1 Mar 2005 03:18:20 -0800

The answer should be obvious for anyone who's kept up with how this
market has developed over the years.

There's no way SGI could have produced its own design at a price
competitive enough to beat Intel's offering of the day. SGI's CPU
would have been faster (around 30% or more I was told) but not
*enough* faster to warrant the higher cost. Add to that the lure
of Intel salaries for the IA64 programme and the inevitable staff
movements which followed, and there you have it.

Some of SGI's ideas are now in the IA64. It's a fast chip, it's scaling
well and SGI is doing good things with it. Whatever one may have
wished had happened, the real world isn't like that. Would you have
been able to turn down $85/hour?

Ian.

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