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Inside the Itanium

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hammer-time dept.

vanguard writes: "Extreme Tech has a detailed overview of the Itanium. It's fairly long but it's worth your time if such things interest you."

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  1. Itanium -- what's the point? by bani · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Is there ANY Itanium hardware that actually delivers good performance for the money yet?

    Is there ANYONE doing ANYTHING useful with them yet?

    As far as I can tell, current Itanium stuff is a mere curiosity.

    Intel is making an enormous gamble with IA-64, it is a huge investment and the whole thing may blow up in their face.

    AMD is taking the 'safe road' -- bolting 64bit onto an existing design, taking advantage of the huge momentum of the x86 architecture.

    Intel on the other hand is going to have to spend a huge amount of effort getting the Itanic moving.

    Will be interesting to see how things develop. Will AMD's 64bit products derail Intel's efforts? Can they crack the 64bit server market fast enough and make IA-64 irrelevant? Stay tuned!!