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IBM to Drop Itanium

Posted by Zonk on from the xeon-chips-have-the-power dept.

Hack Jandy writes "Xbitlabs is reporting that IBM chose not to persue Itanium in their next generation server lineup because of the "market acceptance issues" of the platform. They will still continue with new revisions of Xeon servers, however. With IBM's investments in Power, I can't help but think the writing was already on the wall. The article also hints that IBM might start using Power in their high end server products."

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  1. Re:Cell ? by tuffy · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Cell is going to be great for gaming and rendering and such, but you won't see scientific applications running on it any time soon.

    Considering Sony's previous chips, I expect the Cell won't even be that great for gaming. More likely it'll be an overhyped, underperforming CPU that won't even match the power of other contemporary consoles, much less that of a general purpose PC CPU.

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  2. Stop your lies. by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is bullshit. Just how did Intel copy AMD? In fact, Itanium was designed from the ground up and that is a bloody FACT! Hell, Itanium was being worked on far longer then when AMD had plans for a 64 bit chip. I can site proof of this, can you back up your claim. How you got modded informative is beyond me. And yes, I will flame anyone who post such BS without the facts to back it up.

    http://www.geek.com/procspec/features/itanium

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