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Intel's Itanium 2: Succeed or Fail?

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 3, 2003 @02:44AM 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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Untitled by the+Garden+Gnome · 2003-02-03 02:56 · Score: 0, Troll

I think it will either sell like crazy or not sell at all.(Probably FAIL)

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Re:Fail by LordSah · 2003-02-03 08:36 · Score: 0, Troll

Dude, you can't honestly tell me that adding a heatsink and fan was original innovation and that Intel stole it. If I were a chip engineer and I had to deal with excessive heat, then the voltage reduction would be obvious. Even more obvious (even to laymen), is cooling it off physically.