Joe, Re: "I don't think Sledgehammer will be in $40,000 servers anytime soon or ever. I see Sledgehammer in low end 1 to 2-way servers, selling for $100 to $5,000, sith CPU prices initially between $500 and $1,000, later on falling to $200 to $500. For Itanium to be successful, it has to be competitive in this segment, to gain critical mass."
That's a pretty aggressive metric for success. I think Itanium could generate billions in revenue without ever going into a system that costs <$5000.
Re: "$40,000 and higher price server segment is a shrinking niche, and everything that applise to this segment will be soon rendered irrelevant, as the x86 processors overrun the last lines of defense of these dying vendors, overrunning them without breaking any sweat."
That's your opinion. $40k and above servers is still a multi-billion dollar business. It's good for Intel if Sledgehammer can't compete here, as you suggest.
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