Itanium Not Meeting Intel's Goals

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
In a rare admission, an Intel executive said Tuesday that the company's high-end Itanium chip family still isn't living up to popularity expectations.
"Are we meeting the specific goals this year? Not to the aggressive levels we've set," Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, said while answering questions after a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here. Intel once positioned Itanium as the chip that would become as dominant in the server market as the Pentium is among personal computers. But Intel's Xeon processor, which runs the same software as Pentium machines, still accounts for the majority of server shipments, and Intel in recent years has positioned Itanium only as a replacement for competitors' high-end chips, such as Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc and IBM's Power. Despite the admission, Talwalkar also said Itanium is strong and meeting its long-term goals.
Source: c|net

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  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    n a rare admission, an Intel executive said Tuesday that the company's high-end Itanium chip family still isn't living up to popularity expectations.

    *snicker* Gee, I wonder why?

    /me picks up one of his itaniums, shuffles some papers around, puts it down on top of papers.
  • godzilla525godzilla525 Western Pennsylvania Member
    edited September 2004
    Well duh, the Itanic sucks. :) and getting it to market is the longest CAD copy/paste operation I've ever seen.

    ...that reminds me... I wonder if they have any electrical engineers from PennState working on that CPU... :p It would explain a lot. :)
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