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Bruised Intel focuses forward

Bruised Intel focuses forwardThey dropped the ball with itanic.The warning signs have been staring intel in the proverbial face for many years, and very obviously over the past couple of years. Their attitude towards AMD that their overconfidence in their own flawed designs is coming round to bite them on...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Itanic

Discussion threads 2006-03-07

A piece of the Itanic story

A piece of the Itanic storyYou left out an important ancestor to this...VAX/VMS also pioneered a lot of the protections you mention, and these were carried forward into the Alpha family of processors. thus it really should be no surprise that OpenVMS has been ported to the ItaniumcheersAgreedYes, the earliest...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Itanic

Discussion threads 2006-02-24

Itanium: A cautionary tale

Itanium: A cautionary talepoor performance per dollarunfortunately everyone has a budget, for the price of a single itanium cpu (1.5Ghz = $1900) you can have a complete entry level dual-core system.History lessonSun became the number one UNIX vendor when they came out with SPARC. One thing they did was to...

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, EPIC architecture, Inhell, chip, Digital Equipment Corp., EPIC, Alpha, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP PA-RISC, Itanic, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2005-12-07

Itanium alliance backed by major tech companies

Itanium alliance backed by major tech companiesOdor of death...It's obvious the Itanium is dead when you prod it with the toe of your boot. Be fun to be a fly on the wall at one of those Itanium developer meetings. Bet they're talking about anything and everything but...

Tags: Public relations, Processors, Strategy, Intel Itanium, Itanic, alliance

Discussion threads 2005-09-26

Microsoft limits Longhorn's Itanium job duties

Microsoft limits Longhorn's Itanium job dutiesIt does not matterIf someone needs something more powerful than x86-64 AMD or Xenon chips then they will probably use a RISC platform; running a fax server certainly does not qualify.Itanium has yet to reach some price/performance ratio to make any real difference.Opteron beats Itanium...

Tags: Processors, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, job, Intel Itanium, Microsoft Corp., fax, operating system, Itanic, Microsoft Longhorn

Discussion threads 2005-09-02

Meet HP's new CEO Mark Hurd

Meet HP's new CEO Mark HurdCan Hurd, herd?Today, HP is a mess. Their reputation and products are declining - as is the morale of the workers. They abdicated their leadership in computer chip technology to InHell - only to become the sole salesmen for the Itanic. Carly had the "initiative...

Tags: Operating systems, Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard Co., open source, Itanic, Mandrake

Discussion threads 2005-03-30

Intel Kool-Aid? x86 not an Itanium success factor

Intel Kool-Aid? x86 not an Itanium success factorThe Itanic hasn't sunk yetbecause its floating in 2 feet of water its market share. InHell specifically added an x86 core to the Itanic for "backward compatability" - yet no one flocked to Itanic. As I said before, when Moore's Law runs out...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Network technology, Itanic, Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel x86, Intel Itanium

Discussion threads 2005-03-09

Bruce Perens on Carly's ouster

Bruce Perens on Carly's ousterTells it like it is.The Achilles heel of both HP and Compaq was the blind reliance on Intel. HP and Intel for that matter put billions into Itanic with nothing to show for it. Intel could take it, because they still make monopoly-money profits on the...

Tags: Outsourcing, Processors, Itanic, outsource, Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel x86, Bruce Perens

Discussion threads 2005-02-09

Itanium--one step forward, one back

Itanium--one step forward, one backThe Itanic is DOA...This piece of crap has three feet in the grave and one on the way. Put the poor thing out of it's misery and bury it for good. It's just another multi BILLION dollar Intel failure. Accept it and move on.specialised chips for...

Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, Nothing, x86 architecture, EPIC, Intel Itanium, chip, great architecture, Itanic, server

Discussion threads 2005-01-05

AMD's dual-core performance boost

AMD's dual-core performance boostItanic first dual coreThe Itanic processor was the first with a dual core - a PA-RISC core and a Pentium 5 core - on one chip. Quite an odd beast! If you want x86 backward compatability . . .what the heckwhat the heck are you smoking.Heyyyy!!I found...

Tags: Processors, dual-core, dual-core performance, Itanic, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-10-06

HP discontinues its Itanium workstations

HP discontinues its Itanium workstationsItanium is doneBut its significance is more than that: it will forever be Intel's biggest mistake, the one that gave real birth to AMD's (Opteron's) existence.Not so fast, Jeff . . .. . . This may prove that any one company can no longer foist its...

Tags: Processors, Network technology, workstation, Hewlett-Packard Co., EPIC architecture, Intel Itanium, Alpha, Itanic, 64-bit

Discussion threads 2004-09-24

Itanium not meeting Intel's goals

Itanium not meeting Intel's goalsthe Itanic is sinking? go figurewho'da seen that one commingMeeting expectationsThe initial release of the chip fell short of the expectations set by both HP and Intel. Once HP got the old DEC Alpha, Itanium (AKA Uranium, well that's what we're calling it anyhow) should...

Tags: Processors, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, IBM PowerPC, HP-UX 11i V3, Inhell, Intel Itanium, Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Itanic

Discussion threads 2004-09-07

End of the line for HP's Alpha

End of the line for HP's AlphaMS killed Alpha!!!!Hey, at least MS was mentioned in the story.No tears shed, get rid of themPlease, gid rid of these hardware junkers, we have been liquidating these ancient alphas and buying blades and clustering....They cost millions, run crappy Tru64 garbage.....Good bye and thank...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Processors, Itanic, Alpha Processor, Compaq Tru64 UNIX, alpha, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2004-08-18

Intel changes code name of future Itanium

Intel changes code name of future ItaniumOK Wakeup ya'llLet's get them names right. Good grief can ZDnet come up with anymore "so what" stories. Am I wrong or could that not have gone into the news in brief section.100,000 Titanics sold in 2003 - Sure...The next time Intel...

Tags: Processors, Intel Itanium, Itanic, Intel Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2003-12-18

Additional Resources

What Sun can do now - and why you should help.

Can Sun survive? Sure - but it has to escape from Wall Street, sell its x86 division while it can, and start selling Solaris/SPARC and Sun Ray to the people who would benefit most from those products: the guys who spend $50K to $500K on IT every year and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Processors, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-04-18

What is Microsoft SiArch (and why did they hire a Sun chip guy)?

What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?just more M$ dirty deedsHiring engineeres from competitors should be banned under antitrust law.RE: What is Microsoft SiArch and why did they hire a Sun chip guy?You are so funny. Next we all should become communists and live...

Tags: Semiconductors, Recruitment & Selection, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SiArch, chip guy, donation, Sun Microsystems Inc., chip

Discussion threads 2009-04-09

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzy

Nehalem servers could spark a $27bn feeding frenzyItanium doesn't stand a chance to NehalemOne things for sure (and probably why Intels Tukwila/Itanium has slipped by about a year) is that Itanium doesn't stand a chance against Nehalem and even when Tukwila does arrive, will have a tough ride against Nehalem-EX....

Tags: Semiconductors, Servers, Processors, transistor, Nehalem, electron, Ballistic Deflection Transistor, single core server, Intel Itanium, server

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

More on Sun vs. IBM

More on Sun vs. IBMRip Sun's head off and suck it's guts out!If this goes ahead It will be interesting to see what IBM retains. Adding SPARC to its x86/64 & POWER line up is not really viable. I was sorry when HP axed Alpha for sucky Itanic. Thanks Carly!...

Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Sales force management, IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?

HP and Sun expand partnership...what about a merger?RE: Solaris and JavaI can't help but wonder what HP would do to Sun's software assets in the event of cutting operating costs. economic downturn etcSeeing as they're fundamentally of a hardware mindset.It would be beneficial to their survival (Solaris & Java), if...

Tags: Business structures, Processors, Mergers & Acquisitions, merger, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Itanium, hardware, partnership

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Sun reseller contacts

Sun reseller contactsSun and C=There are some very eerie parallels between Sun marketing and Commodore's in the 80's. The Commodore Amiga was a superior computer by far in the late 80's. US Ham radio operators were the first major group to adopt it, as it fit their needs perfectly. They...

Tags: Sales strategy, Marketing research, UNIX, Operating systems, Sun Microsystems Inc., marketing

Discussion threads 2008-11-24