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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (53611)	9/2/2001 7:51:44 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Wanna: After Intel repositioned Itanium as a 64-bit high end server chip for competition against Sun in the enterprise market What, exactly, is Itanium aimed at? Sun? Power4? Alpha? (well, not anymore, anyway&#133 but was that the case up until Alpha was cancelled?) It seems to me that Itanium was best targetted at the Alpha market, where memory bandwidth and floating point performance (double precision, of course) is paramount. Now, of course, there's little competition for Itanium there (at least a few years from now). Some of the more interesting features of Itanium (like that fault analysis stuff you mentioned a few days ago) seem to be more of a Power4 kind of thing. I'm not quite sure I've ever understood Sun's market (why they even have one, more specifically), so I don't know if Itanium is well-suited to that segment. Now that I'm at it, what's the deal with Hammer, anyway? It seems to me that Sledgehammer could take up some of Alpha's business (the "low-end" portion of it), but is it suited to attack any of the other market segments? (other than high-end "PC servers"). -fyo

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