Replies to post #86313 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

Pete -

You are the one claiming Intel is making money on Itanium. Its your job to prove it, not mine. I just proved that it wasn't making money overall.

here's what you said:

just look at what it cost to develop Itanium and the multi-billion dollar commitments, years ago. The sales, haven't been high enough to pay for that alone, yet.

If all I have to do is look at what it costs, I assume you've already done that, so where is it? You need to back up your claim. I don't think you can because you have a long history of simply making things up. BTW, Intel claims Itanium is profitable. I'm just quoting Intel.

[chipguy]

You are the one claiming Intel is making money on Itanium. Its your job to prove it, not mine.

I have shown it to you, you are in sheer denial doing
your little denial dance with your fingers in your ears
and your eyes squeezed shut.


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.

Deal with it Pete.