Paul,
How goes it? Itanium doing well? Last I heard it
hasn't shipped yet. Maybe if they can get an exception
handler to work in a compiler, folks might start
getting excited about Itanium. Would help, right? ;-)
BTW... EV68 .. remember this:
"A first generation ITanium - probably shipping in a few months - will be infinitley faster than an EVxyz Alpha that
doesn't even yet exist.
Which product do you think customers will prefer - and BUY ?"
A few months Paul? How do you define the word "is"?
But back to my point here... check this out. Folks
are buying EV68 and they don't even exist yet! Can the
same be said of Itanium? No. Itanium is still a loser,
right?
news.cnet.com
"The new Compaq supercomputer will consist of 682 Compaq servers, each with four EV68
processors running at 1.1 GHz, Lipcon said. The chips will be an upcoming design with
0.18-micron features and copper technology, he said, and the four-way servers will be an as-yet
unannounced design."
That is just one spin on the EV68, much faster ones in the
pipeline ... we shall see, won't we?
Get used to Alpha on the high-end and winning contracts
left and right. That 21264 is basically a 5 year old design, wait until you get a load of the 21364.
Itanium was a neat concept. Too little and too late and too hot and too slow , etc. etc.
Rob |
