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To: Saturn V who wrote (138296)	6/27/2001 6:55:08 PM
From: maui_dude	Respond to of 186894

Saturn, Re : "That would put the non-Intel, and high end machines at 300,000." dont forget this is per quarter. Maui.

To: Saturn V who wrote (138296)	6/27/2001 7:28:29 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Saturn - those were quarterly numbers. Annual numbers are about 4M units. The vast majority of those are Intel based. But the other processor types are more often used in larger SMP configurations, so processor units are a higher multiple. Inefficient processors like SPARC need more units to hit the same performance points - a 24 processor IBM S80 or CPQ Alpha outperforms a 64 processor SPARC UE10000. The benefit for Intel if Itanium lights off is that they eventually consolidate everything from sub-notebooks to mainframes on a common architecture which extends the benefits of the application base - the reason for Intel's dominance in the desktop, mobile and volume server spaces today with X86. Intel does not even need to win the performance race - X86 was sweeping up higher powered competition in the 386 and 486 eras. But Itanium will eventually get good mainstream performance too.