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[Tenchu]

Joe, Or was it the wait for comeptitive Itanium that caused the company to go titsup?

Wouldn't it be funny if Dell, once the darling of the PC business, goes "titsup" because it was waiting for competitive Opteron?

I know, sour grapes, don't count my chickens before they're hatched, etc. ...

Tenchu

[chipguy]

It seems that SGI held its breath for a competitive x86 system a little too long.

Well Woodcrest is here now so their wait is over.


Or was it the wait for comeptitive Itanium that caused the company to go titsup?

LOL.

http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn062606-story01.html

"Jill Matzke, high-end server marketing manager at SGI, says that the company has a backlog of the current Altix 4700 blade-based machines that exceeds $100 million"

"While the base Altix 4700 came with 16 Itanium processors and 2 GB of main memory for around $75,000, the Altix 450 has a much lower entry point, with a two-socket, four-core box using the dual-core Montecito Itaniums and 2 GB of memory per core costing under $15,000. "With the low-end of the HPC market being where the growth is, we think the Altix 450 will let us get more business," says Matzke.

The issue now, as far as SGI is concerned, is getting Montecito into the field, which should happen in about three weeks. "We are trying to get as many Montecitos as we can," says Matzke."