Intel Corp (INTC)

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Duke of Earl Itanium will never recoup costs, Opteron will. You seem to try to talk about Xeon but you fail to address the failure that is Itanium, or as I like to refer to it, "The pipe dream scheme". The Pipe Dream Scheme involved Intel putting AMD out of business by bringing Itanium to the masses, away from X86. This has not happened and will not happen and now Intel is left to have to chase AMD on X86-64. As far as 75 biilion is concerned I think you need to revist your numbers or clarify how many years you are talking about because that number is laughable. he big iron market is high end servers and there are not 75 billion a year spent on high end servers. Itanium is a niche product that will never recoup costs and never will generate a billion in a year of revenue. So it appears you are the one who likes stretching the truth and maybe your name should be DukeofIntelFanBoys. And I sincerly mean that.