[ilug-cal] [Chipmaker Talk] Intel is killing Itanium one comment at a time

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhay]

Intel's erstwhile high-volume enterprise chip - Itanium - is now being 
positioned for the lowest-volume market of them all - the mainframe. In 
one of his first public interviews since being tapped as Intel's next 
CEO, Paul Otellini shafted the multi-billion dollar baby by declaring 
that Itanic's future lies with the dinosaurs. It's a revealing comment 
from Otellini, who only a year ago was touting the "year of Itanium." 
Now, as CEO, he may well be the one that finally pulls the plug on the chip.

"Long term, the architecture Itanium needs to aim at is [IBM's] Power 
line," Otellini told BusinessWeek. "We have nothing in our existing 
32-bit line capability that can compete with Power. It's a very high 
performance line requiring liquid-cooling capabilities. The mainframe 
isn't dead. That's where I'd like to push Itanium over time."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/19/intel_itanium_mainframes/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/08/intel_toasts_itaniums_success_by/
Would sure require a coordinated ballet with the Linux vendors ! -SM
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