AI
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:16:40 AM
So, basically, IBM released it now to prevent its current Intel server customers from freaking out
That's one way to interpret it
Actually this has to be good news for Intel regardless. IBM support lots of different architectures and it would have been a blow to Intel if IA64 were really never to be one of them. There are clearly niches where Itanium has a convincing cost-performance story to tell, esp. once the large cache chips launch. Of course, by that time the competition (Power4, Opteron) will be faster and better too.
That's one way to interpret it
Actually this has to be good news for Intel regardless. IBM support lots of different architectures and it would have been a blow to Intel if IA64 were really never to be one of them. There are clearly niches where Itanium has a convincing cost-performance story to tell, esp. once the large cache chips launch. Of course, by that time the competition (Power4, Opteron) will be faster and better too.
