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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. Migration path is everything. by mesozoic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    AMD's x86-64 architecture will allow companies to upgrade individual parts of their software systems to 64-bit without having to replace everything else. That's the key to AMD's future success; it makes the migration path to 64-bit that much easier (and that much cheaper).

    Itanium flopped before; chances are good it will flop again.

  2. "Benefits" of killing the Alpha and PA-RISC... by dpbsmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Saddest sentence in the whole article:

    "There are other benefits for Hewlett-Packard. The Itanium allows the company to eliminate both of its current 64-bit chips -- the H.P. PA-RISC and Compaq Alpha. That alone should save the company $200 million to $400 million annually in development and manufacturing costs, according to Steven M. Milunovich, an analyst at Merrill Lynch."

    Yeah, HP and Compaq have been fine stewards of their engineering legacy...

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