> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sankarshan > Mukhopadhay > Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:14 PM > To: Indian GNU/Linux Users Group - Kolkata > Subject: [ilug-cal] [Chipmaker Talk] Intel is killing Itanium > one comment at a time > > > 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_b y/
Bad time for such news: IBM Power5 is pasting Itanium : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/ibm_shatterrs_tpcc/ Soumyadip Modak -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 19/11/2004 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.1 - Release Date: 19/11/2004 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
