Jeff is exactly correct in all of this. Itanium is not a Carly
initiative and was well underway years before she was hired.

And the Itanium 2 FP numbers are very good.

- Greg

Jeff Woods wrote:
> Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>I mean Carly managed to dump a whole lot of money into
>>developing the Itanic with Intel and that is a piece of crap.
>
>
> Ms. Fiorina had *nothing* to do with HP developing IA-64 with Intel.
>
> It has been pretty well proven that IA-64 is inferior (at least so far)
> to IA-32 for running IA-32 code.  To this point I have read nothing
> except good things about IA-64 running IA-64 code.
>
> My (admittedly simplistic) perception is that IA-64 is HP's PA-RISC 3.0
> (including an EPIC twist that's  as radical today as RISC was in the
> middle 1980s) and that HP decided it would be great to leverage Intel's
> fabrication expertise and (much more important in the long run)
> economy-of-scale by getting Intel to build these chips by the bazillions
> and sell them to practically everyone in the known universe.  To that
> end HP gave the IA-64 design to Intel, assisted them in getting it into
> production and (IIUC) without even getting a discount on the chips they
> buy from Intel.

<snip>

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Greg Cagle
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