Replies to post #27656 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[yourbankruptcy]

wbmw, I agree that Itanium is not in danger. It's only in danger to never get into the sub-$500 area with reasonable performance (not as a castrated deer in the field). If Intel is planning to stay in the market of $100k servers than they probably got it. Opteron is not heading there. The other questions will the clusters replace the $100k servers in future? This possibility exists.

[dougSF30]

wbmw, that was not a caricature of you, but of the poster you suggested had an "interesting perspective".

Regarding Itanium lingering on for several years in a niche, and thereby coexisting with Opteron, sure, that's likely, but given the investment in, and goals for, Itanium, I think that qualifies as failure, don't you?

And on the need for giant, single-image mainframes, I suspect that there will be very few (if any) applications which will not be equally (if not better) served by clusters with ultra-high-speed interconnects. We'll see how this stuff evolves, I guess.

Doug