Paul,
Intel has already sampled literally THOUSANDS of ITanium systems.
When my wife goes to one of those sample sales, I will ask her to buy me one, if it's really cheap. You know, with these samples, you may end up with a totally unique outfit, that not one person on the whole earth has. Sometimes they make a sample of a design that nobody wants, so they never put it in production.
But for now, I will stick to my Celeron. My celeron has 550 MHz, that's more MHz that titanium has. And I actually have 2 of them. That's total of 1100 MHz. So why would I want a CPU that doesn't even have as many MHz as one of my CPUs?
By the way, what's going on with Intel. They seem to be running out of MHz. Itanium doesn't even have as many MHz as Athlon.
By the time they sell Itanium at CompUsa, Intel will have to give one free Itanium with every system, because by then, every other CPU will have more MHz.
I think Itanium will not even be as good a CPU as Athlon. Athlon already has 850 MHz, that's twice as many MHz as Itanium samples.
I know that Intel marketing will try to say: Yes, we don't have the MHz, but we can give you more bits. 64 bits. The competition can only give you 32.
But I don't think people will fall for that. They will see that by the fall, they will be able to buy 1,000 MHz from AMD. They can add that 800 MHz Itanium is not as good as 1,000 MHz Athlon, even if you throw in extra 32 bits for free. Because AMD is giving you extra 200 MHz.
Joe |
