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HP getting pretty desperate?

In a white paper that HP began circulating last month, engineers at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said AMD's Opteron misses the mark in key processing requirements and that HP continues to favor the Itanium processing platform it co-developed with Intel.

"A microprocessor's virtual address space defines the maximum amount of information the processor can reference," HP engineers wrote. "So a much more useful definition of 64-bitness requires a 64-bit data path and 64-bit virtual address space." The paper said that "the virtual address space of Opteron is limited to 48 bits."
http://www.channelweb.com/sections/AllNews/article.asp?ArticleId=45004

48bits=256TB of RAM. If that's the worst criticism they can come up with, then there must be a big fight going on inside HP over Opteron.