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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. Itaniums are the worst chips ever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    They cost a fortune and don't even run Doom

    1. Re:Itaniums are the worst chips ever by QuickFord · · Score: 5, Funny

      True, but they make a real nice keychain!

  2. Re:Grammar nazis unite by garyday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tosser! Since when do modern operating systems come with a spell checker, i believe my OFFICE platform comes with a spell checker, i don't really recall a spell checker being a pre-req for a base O/S .. Therefore, :) is it too much to ask for people to engage brain before putting hand to keyboard. On a side note, I think we should go back to ZX81 architecture, i mean those guys really had something going there, that 1k ram pack was really ace, maybe i can hack it into my current PC, the extra ram would do wonders for me

  3. Re:I'll miss it by Imposter_of_myself · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was a helluva space heater - even if you didn't need it for computin'.

  4. Re:Ahem by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think he meant "purees Itanium in their next generation server lineup."

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  5. "IBM to Drop Itanium" is proof!!! by Kymermosst · · Score: 4, Funny

    Proof that the best way to accelerate an Itanium is at 9.8 m/s^2.

    (That's 32 ft/s^2 in ye olde units.)

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  6. Re:From the summary: by The_Wilschon · · Score: 2, Funny

    which is why we new PowerPC cores so closely follow the release of new POWER cores.

    I didn't know IBM was making intelligent machines yet?

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  7. I like .... by zogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..."Nostradamos" as a name. The first psychic CPU that predicts what tasks you will be doing.

    Unfortunately, all the apps and any kernel for it have to be programmed in quatrains...

  8. Re:From the summary: by macshit · · Score: 3, Funny

    The eClipz project is tied very closely to this. "e" as in eServer, "l" as in Linux, "i" as in iSeries, "p" as in pSeries and "z" as in zSeries will.. eclips the Sun.

    I knew IBM had good research people, but I never realized their acronym technology was that far advanced! My god, with an acronym like that ... their competitors might as well just give up now and save themselves the embarrassment.

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  9. Re:IBM using Power based CELL CPUs by pmonje · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, I'm not supposed to talk about this, but I have two friends who work for the illuminati and all the new mind control chips are going to be based on the CELL. Unfortunately they couldn't give me to many details because of the NDAs that their reptilian overlords made them sign. Anyone wanna bet me?

    seriously slashdot needs a "-1 talking out your ass rating"