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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (62736)	11/7/2001 10:22:33 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, Try shopping around for mid-range to high end servers. Surprisingly, Itanium is pretty competitive, despite lower SPECint scores. This may be a naive question, but what is the intended market for Itanium? My guess would be the broad category of "servers". The performance of servers strongly correlate with SPECint, servers are almost completely independent of processor's SPECfp scores. Based on these 2 metrics, Itanium is strong in the irrelevant category, and weak in the relevant category. I know there is a bit more to this, such as performance on multithreaded apps (I have no idea about how well Itanium does here), memory bandwidth + latency, where Itanium should be good, n-way scaling (remains to be seen). Joe