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What's Next in CPU Land after Itanium?
"I work for a major research organization. Of late a lot of the normal big computer companies have been visiting and preaching the gospel of
Itanium. My question to them, and to the assembled masses here at Slashdot is what happens next when Itanium is real? My world view is that Itanium based systems will become commodity products very quickly after good silicon is available in reasonable volume. At that point, why should one spend $8-10k for that hardware from the likes of HP, Compaq, Dell and others when one can build it for $2k (or even less)? In other words, has Intel finally done in most of their customers by obliterating all the other CPU choices (except IBM Power4 [& friends G4, et al] and AMD Hammer) and turned the remainder of the marketplace into raw commodity goods? Lest you defend the other CPUs... Sparc is dead,
Sun doesn't have the money (more than US$1B we'll guess) to do another round. PA-RISC is done, as HP has
given away the architecture group. MIPS lacks
funding (and perhaps even the idea people at this point). Alpha is
gone too (also because of the heavy investment problem no doubt). Most other CPUs don't have an installed base that makes any difference, especially in the high end computing world. So what's next? I don't like the single track future that Intel has just because it is a single track!"
This is my first roast goat.
Not First Post! Yeah, I rule.
ACs in da hizouse!
a beowulf cluster of these!!
sorry, had to do it.
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How is Intel doing this different from M$ trying to clamping down in the OS arena? Just curious.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
The article doesn't say: "I_AM_A_FAG writes: "Blah blah blah fuck my ass...."
So WHO wrote it? Is Slashdot having problems? Or is Cliff having problems?
I can see it now, All Servers running on Intel Chips running Windows Operating Systems. Unless AMD overcomes their "hobbiest" or second choice image the industry will eventually begin to stagnate.
And at +3. Now where is the turd report?
love is just extroverted narcissism
Why was the above abusive message moderated upward? I swear, the mod points should be given to the AC's, because the people who have them now have shown over and over again that they care more about ruining slashdot than making it useful.z