Dan, Re: "The Itanium II appears to be a chip design with some problems."
Dan3, you never cease to amaze me. You are still singing the ol' "Itanic is gonna sink" song that has gotten oh, so old. "Itanic 2 will be a dog at running 'real world' applications." "Itanic 2 will cost way too much to produce." "Itanic 2 will have no one supporting it with software or hardware." And now, "Itanic 2 is on too old of a manufacturing process." Now that you've been proved wrong on all your other "speculation", it appears that you are still eager to throw a bunch of mud, and see what sticks.
Re: "An obvious part of the problem is due to it being made on Intel's old .18 Aluminum process"
Seems to be the only problem that you focused on in your rant. Not to worry, though, since .13u parts will be arriving early next year, along with .09u parts in 2004. Seems Intel has a row of new process improvements to introduce to the Itanium core, and they don't need SOI to do it. Itanium 2 already outperforms IBM's SOI based Power4 chip, both in performance, and power, in many applications.
I think it's pretty obvious that your "concerns" will be unfounded, and given AMD's current execution, Intel might even have a .09u Itanium before AMD introduces a .09u Hammer. But there is some hope for AMD; they can try and contract out a .09u Hammer to one of Intel's more advanced FABs....
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