An "interesting perspective"?? I guess if you find
Itanium rules. Itanium rules. Intel will never launch an AMD64-compatible clon e. HP will never ship Opteron. Prescott will crush AMD with outstanding perf ormance. Itanium rules. Only Itanium is truly 64-bit. The launch of iAMD64 has no im pact on Itanium. IA-64 is great. Opteron sucks.