Replies to post #37957 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Wbmw:

Very similar to IBM and microchannel. IBM wanted the bus to become their own PC fiefdom after the open ISA bus. They went against VESA and later PCI. They failed miserably even though they had enough clout to keep at it ala Intel. Microchannel is now a footnote in history.

That's where Itanium is heading. Iapx-432 and i860 preceeded it there.

Pete

[Maxime]

wbmw,

Alpha didn't survive because DEC and Compaq didn't manage it very well and HP didn't want to be a CPU design house. How is that similar to Intel's position with IPF?


My argument is that would Intel have depended on Itanium as much as DEC depended on Alpha, Both Intel and Itanium would have tresspassed already. Don't pretend Intel have managed it supperiorly, it's on design tables since 1994, released since 4 years and barely been sold a few 100's of thousands times.

Itatium is still far, far away from profits.