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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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  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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