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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (95911)3/1/2000 3:43:00 PM
From: Rob Young  Read Replies (3) of 1572377
 
Monica,

<Much of the software industry has committed to the Intel 64 bit Itanium>

Don't get too excited about the committment to
Itanium... it is little more than public posturing.

The only segment for Itanium to hope for at FRS
(October 2000) is high-end floating point. It certainly
won't compete for transactions as it will be greatly
outpaced by Athlon and Willamette based systems.

"Oh my my" you say? Look at Compaq's stated direction:

theregister.co.uk

"He said Compaq will bring Itanium to market in a four way system first, and targeted
specifically at specialised markets.

Compaq will use an eight way system based on Foster (Willamette) and then will
migrate that model to the future Intel McKinley model.

Interesting. Compaq reckons there is so much growth in the eight way market, as its
sales figures have proved, that it makes more sense to migrate the eight way model
to McKinley, kind of leaving Itanium for the Itaniates."

Itanium is a development platform... it won't have much
interest at all as its clock-rate sucks and will suck
compared to Willamette and Athlon... clock rate isn't
everything but both Free-Willy and Athloss will have
outstanding memory systems, etc.

Itanium is much too late to market and very underpowered
(733 MHz FRS) to even think about.

Just for grins ...
anyone care to guess which OS is the most popular by volume
shipment for Itanium this time next year?

Rob
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