How Intel Wrecked Itanium: ITANIC Phase 2

[wallie_x]

Intel has shot itself in the foot before,* but this idea puts a different twist on Itanium's fate: bozo moves by Intel transformed Itanium into a white elephant.
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* Anyone remember Intel arrogantly sticking to the 66 Mhz FSB on it's CPU's when AMD came out with the K-6 II? Even after AMD showed that a little ramping of the FSB could improve performance Intel CPU's continued using the 66Mhz memory bus. However, Intel did learn its lessons well as show in the P4 Willy whose only asset was it's massive memory bandwidth, which w/o it was a dunce.

[jmichna]

Good article.... thanks, Wallie...

[Xtreeme]

I got my elephant gun ready-where is it! LOL. My 8mm mag rifle should fix it up good. hehe. wallie_x always gets the goods on the Intel front.

[wallie_x]

More Bad news for Intel

Bloomberg News is reporting that Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s newest microprocessor chip for server computers runs twice as many of the servers sold in the third quarter as a competing Intel Corp. semiconductor, researcher IDC said.
Bloomberg News is reporting that Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s newest microprocessor chip for server computers runs twice as many of the servers sold in the third quarter as a competing Intel Corp. semiconductor, researcher IDC said.

Computer makers shipped 10,746 servers with Opteron, the chip from Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro, Intel's biggest rival in processors, IDC analyst Mark Melenovsky said. Intel's Itanium powered 4,957 servers, which run networks and Web sites.

Opteron has won clients such as Sun Microsystems Inc. and International Business Machines Corp., giving Intel's processors for servers their biggest competition ever just as businesses start to increase spending, analysts said. Revenue at Advanced Micro is forecast to grow more than twice as fast as Intel's this year and next, helped by Opteron sales, according to analysts.

Intel also lost the top spot among flash-memory makers for the first time as demand surged for a type of chip it doesn't make, market researcher iSuppli Corp. said.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co., Japan's Toshiba Corp. and Spansion, a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., all passed Intel in flash revenue in the third quarter, El Segundo, California-based iSuppli said in a release.

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[Xtreeme]

"Bloomberg News is reporting that Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s newest microprocessor chip for server computers runs twice as many of the servers sold in the third quarter as a competing Intel Corp. semiconductor, researcher IDC said."Gleeingly rubbing hands together-"Good-very good".....Go AMD! Amd me LOL.