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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. It's all about the OS by PhysicsGenius · · Score: -1, Troll
    Itanium/2 is a 64 bit processor. So it needs 64 bit software, including the OS. That's the beauty of Linux--it already exists on 64 bit platforms (such as Alpha and RS/6000). It's just a simple recompile to get the OS running and then maybe a few tweaks for the apps on top of that.

    Whereas in the case of Windoze, the 32 bit stuff (and even some 16 bit stuff) is built right in to the API. It's gonna take years to get that all straightened out and that's just for the OS. Then the millions of apps that people use, right now an excellent way to lock customers in, are going to turn into a lodestone around their necks.

    I'm sure Micro$oft is pissed as hell, but Linux is going to take a huge upswing when Itaniums start flying off the shelves.

  2. Untitled by the+Garden+Gnome · · Score: 0, Troll

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

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  3. Arg! by Larry*boy.3 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Darn Intel...go jump into a firey hole and die or something! No seriously....go...now!

  4. Re:Fail by LordSah · · 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.