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[chipguy]

Yet Intel does give away CPUs to HPC clusters

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Thinking otherwise puts you into fantasy land, while I am in the real world

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197700270

Kilroy and Boyd Davis, general manager of Intel's Server and Platform Group Marketing, who also attended the meeting, reiterated Intel's commitment to Itanium, a non-x86 server chip that competes with SPARC from Sun Microsystems and POWER-architecture based processors from IBM, both RISC-based chips. A major Itanium customer is computer maker Hewlett-Packard.

While acknowledging that the Itanium market is not as high volume as Xeon, it's still a profitable business. "We want to bring volume economics to this market," Davis said.

A low volume product like IPF is not profitable when
you give away 596 mm2 chips. Think again genius.