chipguy: Re: I don't know where you are getting this 2000 number from...
It has been widely reported that only about 2000 Itanic systems were sold in all of 2002. Doug is technically incorrect with the statement of 2000 chips since most systems have more than one CPU. Any way you count it, however, there weren't many Itanic sales last year.
According to Dean McCarron at Mercury Research, Itanic 2 is not doing much better. Regarding the recall, he said "The Itanium 2 electrical glitch announced Monday isn't as serious as it could have been...[ because ] the actual number of systems affected is going to be tiny compared to the more traditional server market based on Xeon."
According to HP, they have "... not yet decided on how it will proceed with its Itanium 2 installed base, which is not a large volume, according to an HP spokesperson."
IBM immediately halted shipment of its XSeries servers, but "...said IBM had shipped only a handful of the systems so it would not affect a significant amount of customers."
If Intel is selling a lot of Itanics, they sure are keeping it a good secret.
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