That's just what Intel and partners were planning on spending between 2006 and the "remainder of the decade". I don't understand how you can only follow one company and be so clueless - utterly clueless.
Intel And Friends To Invest $10 Billion In Itanium
The money will be used for R&D, new server platforms, and better applications, compliers, and tools to support Itanium.
By Darrell Dunn InformationWeek January 26, 2006 06:00 PM
Intel's Itanium chip has been struggling in the market, with three of the four largest server makers choosing not to build systems based on the processor. But the high-end processor architecture will not fail due to lack of financial support. Intel and a group of technology companies that includes Hewlett-Packard on Thursday pledged to spend $10 billion over the remainder of the decade to support Itanium...
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