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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. Itanic's sinking by wikinerd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    [begin:humour]
    Weee! Itanic's sinking! Go AMD go go!!! :) :) :)

    Or perhaps Intel will bomb AMD Dresden fab with the unsold Itanics... too bad for Intel the Itanics don't have pins!! :)
    [end:humour]

    I wonder what Intel was thinking when designing the Itanic. Even if x86 is not suitable for some applications or not perfect, it is cheap and available everywhere. Adopting a different arch means more cost, both for the hardware and the software but also for hiring new engineers who know how to program the new arch. In a business world which increasingly seeks to minimise cost, it is inevitable that expensive and new archs like IA64 cannot succeed. x86-64 is the way to go now!