chipguy,
You better tell HP. The biggest seller of Opteron systems
is under the mistaken belief that Montecito based systems
will outperform contemporary Opteron systems 2x socket
for socket.
Once I got past the key word in that sentence: will, the question immediately popped popped into my head: If it does, for how long?
IPF bashers make me laugh alright. Year after year IPF
sales continue to grow rapidly despite every new reason
they throw out why it is doomed. First it was AMD64,
then it was Intel's own EM64T line. Now it is son of HT.
Yeah whatever you say Joe. :-P
If you are happy with Itanium progress, who am I to disturb your happy state of mind. But if you look around, you will realize that in sales, Itanium is looking at the tail lights of just about all of the competing 64 bit processors still on the market: POWER, Opteron, Xeon, and probably Sparc too. Considering what we were told that Itanium is the one 64 bit processor to rule them all, it is not entirely happy situation...
Joe
