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HP Terminates Itanium Workstations

Posted by michael on from the writing-on-the-wall dept.

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."

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  1. hp server by IAR80 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let me put it this way. I would not buy a server from HP anyway.

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  2. In Soviet Russia by EnderWiggnz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... HP Terminates Carly Fiorina...

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  3. Re:Top 10 by Orgazmus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I dont know. Not all of his jokes are that much better.
    These jokes actually made me smile for a change

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  4. Re:Yeah, Itanium tanked... So what? by Mr+Guy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because ATI drivers suck.

    Seriously, people root for AMD because people LIKE getting the same speed and power cheaper. With ATI and nvidia, there are certainly fans on either side, and there are definitely people who have sworn off one company over the other, but they both make pretty decent products. For AMD and Intel, AMD is just cheaper and either better or just as good. I don't know that anyone really cares deeply about AMD the company, so much as AMD's impact on the price of BOTH company's lines of chips.

    Newegg.com: P4 2.6Ghz - $109, AMD Barton 2600+ - $88

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