Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[jhalada]

wbmw,

Anyone expecting it to set the standard for volume server architectures is going to be sorely disappointed. But it's obvious that it has carved out a pretty successful niche at the high end, that's growing at the expense of Sun and IBM, and has a sizable contribution to revenue in the server market. So proclaiming it to be a winner or loser depends on what ends you perceive it as needing to achieve.

Good point. Intel wanted Itanium to be its only 64 bit chip, meaning it would have to be a mainstream server chip today, replacing Xeon everywhere except the lowest end. By that standard, Itanium is a complete loser.

Only based on the new, vastly scaled down goal (for it to be a high end niche product) it is not a loser.

Joe