Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD): Face it chipguy, Merced was a failure....

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Re: chipguy post# 86075

Friday, 10/24/2008 10:30:55 PM

Friday, October 24, 2008 10:30:55 PM

Face it chipguy, Merced was a failure. It took HP engineers to make a viable Itanium CPU and even then, it wasn't that good compared to previous hype (including yours). Sure big pockets can help it keep alive, but "lowly" Opteron still beats it in absolute revenue (CPU revenue). AMD64 servers (both AMD and Intel) far exceed it in absolute revenue. Even the growth of them in incremental dollars exceeds the Itanium CPU overall revenue. In fact without the AMD64 servers and their cash cow revenue, Itanium would fail for the inability to keep up in R&D costs both CPU and process.

Soon the viability of Itanium will be questioned even with Intel backing and it will die off as its niche shrinks to virtual nonexistence as Power eats it from the top, down, and AMD64 keeps chewing on its bottom, up.

Opteron will be in 32nm SOI before you hope it will get there.