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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
- Thinking about multicore and software
- Thinking about multicore and softwareThanks! NT:)RE: Thinking about multicore and softwarePaul,Provided a link to this blog on http://www.multicoreinfo.com , which is a website for resources related to multicore processors.Independent JobsIn the Enterprise, dual core makes sense for handling anti-virus, encryption, and other annoying security overhead functions. When you start...
- Tags: Network technology, open source, T2, MULTICS & PAPPL, Thinking about multicore, hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficiencies
- HP seals EDS deal; Services No. 2 behind IBM; Hurd touts efficienciesShould have bought AMD first.They could have obtained EDS at a later date, then filled it with cheap AMD products. AMD is a steal right now! EDS is currently filled with IBM products.RE: HP seals EDS deal; Services No....
- Tags: Electronic Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., No. 2
- Discussion threads 2008-05-13
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, T2+, T2
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- AMD acknowledges quad-core woes; Promises rebound; Highlights roadmap
- AMD acknowledges quad-core woes; Promises rebound; Highlights roadmapWell at least they are admitting...it instead of blowing smoke.I still use AMD64 X2's and like the price/performance point. Pair an X2 with the 690 chipset on an all-in-one ASUS mobo and a better business platform would be hard to find.RE: AMD acknowledges...
- Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., quad-core woe, quad-core, Highlights roadmap
- Discussion threads 2007-12-13
- The most exciting thing in IT
- The most exciting thing in ITAh yes, the best of the past . . .I was a great fan of the QMS printers - they were tough and the support was excellent - on par with Sun service!The HP workstations (HP735 et al) were workhorses that were tough and worked...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Strategy, Operating systems, UNIX, SCO Group Inc., SCOx, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Is AMD's 65nm SOI process broken?
- Is AMD's 65nm SOI process broken?As soon as I read the headline...I knew it had to be George.Your bashing has become boring.Seems to be..and after all the SOI hubbub, too!Good topic. AMD made a huge stink about it's incredible and innovative SOI process a few years ago. That along...
- Tags: Processors, OPEN SOURCE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., SOI, Intel Corp., processor
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
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