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To: Ian Anderson who wrote (50678)8/22/2000 1:28:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Ian, Itanium is initially being targeted at servers and high-end workstations. As I mentioned before, servers will be adopting DDR SDRAM over RDRAM. (High-end workstations will adopt either, and Intel will continue to push RDRAM in this space.)

The fact that 460GX (Itanium chipset) supports only PC100 SDRAM should not be surprising. Usually high-end servers always lag behind the latest memory technology by a generation. For example, when the first 4-way Xeon chipset was released (450NX), it supported EDO DRAM, despite the fact that PC100 was the top-of-the-line at the time. Memory bandwidth was achieved using brute-force interleaving since these servers require many memory modules anyway.

By the way, I have to take issue with your statement, "I don't expect to see any commercial products containing it [Itanium], just for it to be used as a vehicle to build infrastructure. The first real IA-64 products will come with it's successor." The fact is that Itanium is a REAL product, a REAL platform, designed for REAL server tasks. Server vendors out there will indeed feature REAL solutions involving this first-generation Itanium. It's not (just) a development platform.

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