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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 200.98+1.4%3:59 PM EST
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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (81226)5/31/2002 10:27:17 PM
From: Dan3Read Replies (2) of 275872
 
Re: Hammer doesn't stand nearly as much of a chance in the 4-way and greater market than Itanium 2 does.

Itanic multiprocessor systems are horribly expensive to produce, run little or no software, and perform poorly. Itanic's been shipping for a year, and the only performance results we've ever been allowed to see are hand coded SPEC specials, that run hand tweaked multi-pass compiler optimized code that's good for only one set of data. This acts as a crutch for Itanic's crippled non-OOE architecture.

Hammer multiprocessor systems are (relatively) inexpensive to produce, will run just about any code, and will perform well on just about any code - real code, with data that varies, so the system is good for something other than repeating the same optimized run on the same frozen data over and over again.

If AMD is able to publicly demo a working multiprocessor (4-way or greater) system as early as next month, Itanic is finished, its window of opportunity will have closed.
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