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To: Dan3 who wrote (165477)	5/29/2002 8:59:11 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Itanium II performance on par with SUN Sparc ...The comparison is between an Itanic running at 1GHz and a Sun USIII running at 750 MHz... .... the Itanic is apparently only 1.3 times faster when running a SPECint2000 benchmark. The claims are surrounded by disclaimers such as ' processor numbers are forecasted target [sic] on production systems based on Intel estimates' Since Sparc is already shipping at 1GHZ (in limited quantities) it looks like Itanic the sequel will enter the market with performance equal to Sparc, 64-bits like sparc, costing a lot more than Sparc, but with almost no software - unlike Sparc. theinquirer.net Sorry gang, but this isn't very encouraging - Itanium II has higher cost, no compatibility with anything, and barely matches the performance of the slowest architecture out there. Sparc can afford to run a little slower, it has a huge installed software base and is very scalable, but a new entrant is gong to have to do better than this. Intel is leaving a hole the size of an oil tanker for AMD to sell Opteron into - will AMD be able to take advantage of it? How many out there expected public demos of 4-way Opteron systems this soon?