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[KeithDust2000]

Chip analyst says Intel has failed to prove case for Itanium

MICROPROCESSOR REPORT guru Peter Glaskowsky says in the latest edition of the journal that Intel has failed to prove the case for its IA-64 Itanium microprocessor.

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He said that Weber had pointed out that instruction set architecture is practically irrelevant to the costs and capabilities of microprocessors now, and that rather than force IA-64 on the world, Intel should consolidate on the AMD64 model.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12654

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Certainly in line with what I (and probably most here) have been saying for a long time. Itanium is not the future of the server market, X86 is. The trends can´t be denied. Of course, that doesn´t mean Itanium is dead. It could live on basically forever, if Intel wants it to. I actually hope it will be around for some time.