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To: combjelly who wrote (164360)4/20/2002 3:46:44 PM
From: wanna_bmw  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Combjelly, Re: " Considering the die size of IA-64 for the announced future, it's unlikely to play much in that market. Sure, there are Xeons, but a certain percentage of the market is going to be interested in 64 bit systems and won't be interested in IA-64..."

The value in supporting IA-64 is the higher margins. Do you know how much Microsoft charges for their Windows Data Center versions? It's top dollar, and likely to stay that way, since IA-64 will probably remain a solution for 4+ processor systems over the next 5+ years. Microsoft's value in supporting Hammer is if AMD can show it as a viable server solution, so that it can get the same margins, as opposed to being picked up by the Linux community. If all Hammer ends up being is a consumer level product, then Microsoft would have no reason to support it, since it already controls nearly all of the consumer market, and is in no danger of losing it to Linux.

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