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Dell Dumping Itanium

Posted by Zonk on from the nice-to-have-known-you dept.

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.

6 of 170 comments (clear)

  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I dump on Dell.

  2. /. TROLLS DUMPING FIRST POSTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Film at 11.

  3. Bitch! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bitch!

  4. to the management by KFowler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Dell,
    Start shipping computers that have firewire ports and maybe I'll start taking you seriously.
    Love,
    Kevin

  5. You're a tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Herr Schroeder is on his way to a stunning re-election because he emphasizes his socialist Baader-Meinhoff origins. Why is it that everyone in Europe calls a communist a "socialist"? It doesn't have the same stigma?

    Not that I give a rat's ass whether or not you Euro-weenies think you're actually fooling anybody into thinking your effeminate mincing is anything other than a descent into Marxist dependency societies, but... you're NOT fooling anybody, especially those who actually realize the Social Democrats are a bunch of statist, worthless holdovers from the anti-nuke days of the 1980s.

    And, for god's sake, BRUSH YOUR FUCKING TEETH!

  6. Re:AMD and Dell both from Austin.... by bradleycarpenter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you been watching soap operas again?