On the Itanic front, there was this amusing bit today:
Intel's Itanium shows it still has a way to go semibiznews.com
At least three companies showed off Itanium systems on the show floor: Intel, with help from VA Linux Systems Inc. and Mission Critical Linux, Silicon Graphics Inc., and NEC Corp. In fact, NEC demonstrated a 16-way Itanium way server using its custom-designed Azusa chip set.
However, the Itanium chips did not perform anywhere near the promised speed of 800 MHz. Intel of Santa Clara, Calif., recently pushed back the Itanium's release date three months or so until the fourth quarter, when pilot development systems are scheduled to be released.
Instead, Intel's LinuxWorld efforts included demonstrating 500-MHz, pre-production Itanium chips in its own booth and with SGI, which also had a system containing a 733-MHz Itanium chip, an SGI spokesman said. NEC representatives declined to comment on the clock speed of the chips in their Azusa prototype, but indicated that the clock speed was well under the expected 800-MHz threshold.
Cheers, Dan. |
