Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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"Uhh... all of them." Aha.

"People are buying the CPU, not the features."
You mean people buy the brand, right?

"They want something fast, reliable, and affordable."
Definitely. Is it really that what Itanium is?

"If Itanium meets these things, it can succeed in any market."
Hmm. At least the product got to be useful for something as well, would you agree?

"It will take some years of seeding the software industry,"

Exactly. Which is the crucial point.

"but I can see Intel succeeding in getting the CPU everywhere, including desktops."

Maybe, but not before there is software for it. Which will take years, as we agree in.

"Of course, by then, it will not be called ITanium, but rather use something more sexy for the desktop market."

Yeah. Intel is good in branding. But again, that is years away.
Whatever the name will be, the product then will have to compete against K9 - and a couple-year-old marketbase of AMD-64.

Ambitious, at least, even with nearly unlimited financial resources, would you agree?

Actually, for my sorrow eyes Itanium looks more obsolete than inevitable from this point forward.

K.