Dell Dumping Itanium

njcoder writes "In a PC World article it is disclosed and confirmed by Intel that Dell is dropping support for Itanium processors. 'After Advanced Micro Devices demonstrated that 64-bit extensions to the x86 instruction set offered a smoother transition to 64-bit computing, Intel released a version of Xeon with similar technology, and Dell now offers 64-bit Xeon processors across its product line.'" More from the article: "The chip maker has since backed off its original statements about Itanium and is now promoting the chip as a high-performance replacement for reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processors in Unix servers from companies such as Sun Microsystems and IBM. Hewlett-Packard, a co-designer of the processor, has embraced Itanium as the processor of choice for its high-end servers. Fujitsu. and NEC are also among the system vendors that sell servers with the processor." The story is also being reported at Ars Technica.

Comments

Re:Don't forget SGI

[Anonymous Coward]

Somehow this reminds me of when George Bush said - "Don't forget Poland!" when listing the allies in the Iraq war.

Once again, crap wins

[DesScorp]

Let's see...you've got a superior technology that suffers from bad company management ... Itanium.

You've got less expensive yet outstanding technology that suffers from poor market share (for the time being)... Opteron

And then you have a bloated, legacy, piece of shit technology that's a crude copy of Opteron, a Pentium 4 with hastily tacked on 64 bit instructions (copied from AMD), a technology that Intel doesn't even believe in, that they themselves think is inferior.... Xeon

Guess which one will dominate the market?

Sometimes IT really does suck.

Re:Once again, crap wins

[leathered]

Let's see..

McDonalds, the world's largest restaurant chain that wins countless awards every year for culinary excellence and whose head chefs have sold millions of copies of their recipe books.

AOL, the geeks' favourite ISP reknowned for their quality tech support who can effortlessly guide you through tunneling VNC over SSH at 3 o'clock in the morning.

General Motors and Ford, the greatest car companies in the world who consistantly teach their Japanese counterparts lessons in safety and reliability.

Dell, the world's largest computer manufacturer...

I'll stop now, I'm soooooo depressed.

Buss1n and Popp1n

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