Besides, what we've seen these last 10 years or so is a tidal wave in how the workstation market has mutated. 10 years ago, hi-perf workstations were PA-RISC, simply because Intel didn't measure up. Since then, IA-32 chips and graphics cards have made tremendous performance increases, reducing the performance gap between IA-32 and PA-RISC based workstations to almost nothing.
Now, enters Itanium. Note that I'm still talking workstations, exclusively. This chip is a good successor to PA-RISC, and will certainly phase it out in about 2 years. So you've got a brand-new chip that's there to take a shrinking market share. It's right there that the math just doesn't cut. You don't invest millions to churn out products that just won't sell. Itan,ium workstations were doomed from day 1, period. I'm talking about business, not about technical niceties.
Bottom line : the market does not care about technical niceties. It cares about ROI, market share and profit margins. Itanium workstations had none and promised neither.
We're no longer in the late-80s market, with PA-RISC workstations booming in the wake of the Apollo acquisition. We're in the 21st century, and it's all about commodity.
Now, if we want to see a little further, let's promote Itanium as the next-generation PA-RISC, which it is going to be, and in an outstanding way. And in 18 months at most, we'll be talking commodity, too.
The first time I heard a high-ranking HP exec say "We consider the battle of hardware won. We're focusing on added value" will be exactly 10 years ago next January. We'd better adapt or change jobs, cause it's what the market is yelling at us.
Christian Lheureux
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part
> de John Clogg
> Envoyé : mercredi 17 novembre 2004 22:47
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> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] HP drops Itanium
>
> Where did you get the impression that HP has dropped Itanium? All they
> did was stop using it in workstations. It has always been intended as a
> processor for servers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Craig Lalley
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: HP drops Itanium
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> OK, this sounds about par for the course.
>
> HP drops Itanium and Intel starts pusing it....
>
> Intel Launches New Enhanced Itanium(r) 2 Processor with 9MB L3 Cache
>
> http://www.intel.com/business/newsletter/index.htm?sssdmh=dm23.74579
>
> A 9MB cache is quite a job, that CPU must need it.
>
> -Craig
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