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HP Terminates Itanium Workstations
vincecate writes "The largest Itanium system maker,
HP, has terminated its Itanium workstations.
It seems their workstation customers have spoken in favor of x64.
In related news, Intel expects to ship
over 100,000 Itaniums in all of 2004
while AMD is estimating
1.5 to 2 million AMD64 chips in Q4."
I've heard that HP actually sold both of the Itaniums they had in inventory, so there shouldn't be too much to write off.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Isn't x64 the program that runs the VICE C64 emulator? ;-)
Top 10 Itanic jokes:
:-D
10. HP decided that they didn't want to go down with the Itanic
9. Hear that flushing sound? That's billions of dollars being invested into a lemon.
8. HP must of realized it was a 64-bit Pinto.
7. HP's just upset that they didn't get to sit on the bow and yell, "I'm the King of Computers!"
6. HP's Itanic line is sunk.
5. "The Itanic is the most advanced chip of her kind. She's practically unsinkable!"
4. HP didn't want to be compared to Leonardo Di Caprio
3. HP Execs suddenly realized that Di Caprio dies in the end
2. Intel assured HP that the Itanic was not sinking, despite being hit by a AMDBerg
1. "My clock wiiilllll, count on and on!"
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
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Yeah, I buy all my servers from lizard man.
He doesn't provide 24/7 technical support but he will harass your family for free.
I remember 5 or 6 years ago the new 64-bit chips from Intel were "hot" with everyone talking about them, and also supposedly right around the corner in terms of schedule. AMD surely stole their thunder on this.
O tempora...
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Competition is good for market economies. Monopolies suck.
This shows how big a problem proprietary closed lock-in has become. Well, I've got a message for HP: Bring it on! You can pry my workstation from m%#y co%@$(
Yeah, pushsing for backward compatibility to a 32 bit CPU that is compatible with a 16 bit CPU with lots of weird modes is great. Really, it is.
- These characters were randomly selected.
Yeah.. I just ordered the IA-64 linux developer's kit CD from HP (for free) last week! Jeez..
AMD deserves the win here for pushing 32 bit backwards compatibility
Backwards compatibility? Why? I mean you can just recompile, right?
Oh God. Please tell me you didn't go in for one of those closed source software packages....
I think it's the sunk cost fallacy - "we've already spent $X billion on this, let's throw a few more billion at it until it works."
iPods... oh wait...
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This is what happens when you hire a medieval history major to be your CEO. Look up what Carly the Butchers degree is in.
Uh... All timely, right decisions too. Your point?
If they come up with a "commodity processor" based on Itanium (you know, like the PII was for the PPro), it might do well.
That said, I was building servers and teching machines when the PII came out. Before that (and for some time after), we installed PPro's in servers. The only dumbasses who bought PPro's for their workstations were trustafarians and scary geeks who constantly had a stain of cheeto crust on their fingers and needed "the best money could buy".
Wow. I didn't even know they included self-destruct hardware!