Intel Corp (INTC)

[Dan3]

Re: Was this information contained in an article, or it it your thoughts

I've been tracking system pricing and availability on pricewatch for several months (informally, for years, but I wanted to be able to do quantitative comparisons). I added Itanium and Opteron to my list when Itanium first began seeing competition from Opteron (and it became interesting to track) but shortly after I did so, Itanium disappeared.

Here's a link to the most recent post:
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=19032299

Itanium has been available for many months, it used to have its own category on Pricewatch.

Now it's gone.

It disappeared shortly after the news that some Itanium II chips produce the wrong answer when calculations are made in certain sequences.

If you think it disappeared for a different reason, please post it. Bottom line, though, is that it once was available and now it's gone.

Re: "AMD continues to dominate in the 64-bit server market"?
I really should have qualified that further to limit the market to mainstream non-proprietary chips. I apologize for any confusion. Basically, I was referring to Intel, AMD, and I suppose we would include Transmeta and VIA if they began shipping 64-bit chips into this market. These are the companies that are vying for the Windows/Linux server CPU market that has a quarterly volume of well over a million units, rather than the tens of thousands of quarterly units in the proprietary UNIX/ULTRIX/AIX segments occupied by SPARC, Alpha, etc..

Certainly SUN is the present market leader in 64-bit server CPU unit sales with its SPARC family and IBM is probably second with its POWER family, but I was referring to the battle for the 64-bit Windows/Linux mainstream being waged between Intel and AMD - and Intel has recently left the field, leaving it to be dominated by AMD.