Replies to post #40263 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[alan81]

More to do with SUN...
I imagine the timing says something about where their priorities are - how long has Itanium been around?
I imagine both ports (opteron, Itanium, and probably Xeon) has more to do with SUN's realization that they will not be competitive in hardware development long term, and need to become more of a software and services company... SUN did start an Itanium port many years ago, and then canceled it, so I suspect the code is farther along than anybody might have suspected.
--Alan

[chipguy]

chipguy - I imagine the timing says something about where their priorities are - how long has Itanium been around?

Since 2001. But Sun very publically killed its Solaris on
IPF port a few years ago. The fact that they revived it to
the point it is running on IPF servers in their lab and
are having "very productive" discussions with Intel about
it demonstrates how *no* OEM can ignore IPF and still hope
to stay in the game.