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Intel's Itanium 2: Succeed or Fail?

Posted by Hemos on from the what-will-the-world-make-of-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "'Intel's most powerful processor ever has the ability to take on IBM, sink Sun, make or break HP, and crush or revive AMD,' says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. But the 64-bit question is what happens to the heavyweight competition if Itanium 2 succeeds or fails?"

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  1. amazing article by Shymon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, if intel's new chip is a hit then the company will profit more. In other news if intell gains market shares then AMD will not have those same market shares.....i should be an econmic analyist.

  2. No one will ever need more than 64bit. by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 5, Funny


    Wait..I have heard that before....

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    #/usr/local/surf/glassy/overhead
  3. Re:Backwards compatibility by Gortbusters.org · · Score: 5, Funny

    True. Believe it or not my mother still has my old 486 case I gave her. She has swapped the motherboard for a Pentium2, the graphics card, added memory and tweaked the thing beyond everyone's wildest dreams! It's her hobby.

    Her favorite apps: microsoft works, netscape 4.7, and some kodak digital photo software.

    The point: Not everyone has the latest and greatest of computers, the vast majority of the public is using our throw away computers or the cheap stuff from circuit city. They will still need to be supported.

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    Free your mind.
  4. Journalist != Scientist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Clearly this guy is a journalist, especially with a title to a story like that.

    If I may quote the author:


    Robotic carts rumble overhead on ceiling-mounted rails. Periodically they stop, extend long metal arms down with a hiss, and lift sealed canisters full of what appear to be stacks of delicately preserved LP records.
    ... ... ... *GAG*

    Don't pay any attention to this guy - he gets paid by the paragraph.

    -Ryan
  5. Obviously I can't speak for you.... by Kibo · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I have a hard time envisioning the scenario in which my porn collection would require 16 billion gigabytes, and I'd want to view it all at once.

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    --Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
  6. Re:If it fails... by twistedemotions · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure about that (HP switching to Alpha). Alpha is the redheaded stepchild of the Compaq/HP marriage.

    I'd figure they would just stick with HP's own son PA-RISC.

  7. Re:Fail by christophersaul · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fair point. Can this be the first example of someone actually reacting to a posting on Slashdot, asking us all to 'imagine a Beowulf cluster' of something? Did Larry read it and tell his engineers to make it happen?