Replies to post #52891 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipdesigner]

By the end of this year, iAMD64 platforms will outnumber IPF platforms by a factor of HUNDREDS-to-1.

IPF is stuck in a shrinking niche.

[wbmw]

Re: Itanium keeps loosing traction it seems.

>> Really? HP's IPF server sales more than TRIPLED from
2003 to 2004. The IPF server market was about $1.7B,
nearly twice as large as the Opteron server market, in
2004.

Don't forget the new FSC 64-way system... hardly an example of IPF losing traction.

[jhalada]

chipguy,

re: IBM DROPS ITANIUM SUPPORT

A clear sign that IPF is starting to impact IBM's RISC
sales.

I knew you could do it. Turn dropping Itanium chipset into a positive.

Joe

[mas]

A clear sign that IPF is starting to impact IBM's RISC
sales

115M worth ? I don't think so. ;-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/ibm_noitanic_chipset/

[sgolds]

chipguy, are you serious? I know you were always partisan towards Itanium but your recent posts sound like a salesman trying to sell a used car that won't run!

A clear sign that IPF is starting to impact IBM's RISC
sales. POWERx competes against IPF for IBM customer
interest amd IPF was by far the preferred choice last
last year in high growth server segments like Linux
based systems. With POWERx in a fight for survival
against IPF momentum IBM realized it can't afford to
lend any bit of support to the other side.

So now IBM drops IPF because it competes too heavily with Power. Yeah, that's believable! IBM drops a product line that is profitable and growing by leaps and bounds, and chase away customers to HP, to protect Power? That is what you want us to believe?

That's incredible.

Which is another way of saying that you have lost all credibility.

Too bad.