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Itanium Problems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fever-dreams dept.

webdev writes "An article in today's NYTimes (free but...) highlights some industry concerns over Itanium. The author suggests the normal "what's bad for Intel is bad for the computer industry". Anyone know the power consumption for IBM's 64 bit effort GPUL?"

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  1. When's the renaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because this thing really should be called the Itanic...

  2. My favorite quote from the article by wolfgang_spangler · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place, and the Itanium is exactly that," said Gordon Bell, a veteran computer designer and a Microsoft researcher."

    He should follow that up by saying, "Here at Microsoft we have proved this time and time again."

  3. Only If... by Myriad · · Score: 5, Funny
    Can we use now the term "vaporware" for hardware as well as software?

    Only if you try to overclock it.

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    1. Re:Only If... by Metaldsa · · Score: 2, Funny

      The first time I ever heard the word "vaporware" was the Bitboys claim of 300fps in quake3 (back when the fps was more around 100).

  4. Err... Uhhh.... by gmhowell · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place, and the Itanium is exactly that," said Gordon Bell, a veteran computer designer and a Microsoft researcher.


    He's absolutely correct. The most intelligent thing to do is to make insignificant, incremental changes, and charge customers full price for each of them.

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  5. At 135 watts per chip... by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?

    In fact, I know from a reliable source that tomorrow the president of the USA is going to reveal that the Iraqi army has managed to get hold of 2000 Itanium chips and is threatening to turn them all on and melt the Earth.

    RMN
    ~~~

  6. Itanium Power Consumption by guinan · · Score: 3, Funny

    We have an early model of the Itanium ( given to us free by HP ;-).

    The beast has a 220V power line coming into it, and we've decided that the reason its so heavy is that if it was lighter, the fans would propel it across the room like a jet engine.

  7. itanium is OK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Once people discover that its 130 watts of power dissipation can fry eggs perfectly, Intel will make tons of money in the high-end cooking appliances market.

  8. Re:Planet of the apes... by mabinogi · · Score: 3, Funny

    >just makes you wonder if we'll still be using x86 compatible chips in the year 3029..

    Yup, and IPv4, and people will still not buy a PC without a 1.44MB floppy drive, despite the fact that the last floppy disc was finaly destroyed in 2589...

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