Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

Everything fell apart in late 2004.Why ? Because of lack of progress with IPF's top frequency.

BS! It is really quite simple, GFLOPs per dollar. Cheap
clusters of 2s nodes have taken the HPC world by storm
and the choice of processor is determined by GFLOP/
dollar with TDP an important second criterion.

At the prices Intel wants to sell IPF MPUs for even 3 GHz
IPF chips would still be far behind Xeon and Opteron in
GFLOPs per dollar.

Tukwila will be an amazing performer for HPC but it will
still lose to x86 in GFLOPs/dollar which is more important
to most HPC customers than absolute performance per
node.