Poor Itanium. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Dell is dropping Intel’s flagship server processor because customers just aren’t interested. Dell is instead moving forward with plans to include EM64T Xeon processors, which are compatible with AMD 64-32 Opteron processors.
The Itanium never faired particularly well, based partly on the fact that it was a proprietary architecture. Microsoft has already eliminated support on the workstation and has reduced its support for even the server version of Itanium.
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The Itanium never faired particularly well, based partly on the fact that it was a proprietary architecture. Microsoft has already eliminated support on the workstation and has reduced its support for even the server version of Itanium.
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EDIT:
ok, whoever wrote the story changed it. it said AMD Xeons before, now it says EM64T (Intel) Xeons.
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And yes, AMD has been the innovator for a few years now, and currently leads the 64-bit market.
To bad
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Returns a lot of results... so he did not make it up...
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAMD64
No in english though...
http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/IAMD64
We reported last week that finding an Itanium on the Dell site was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, if anyone remembers either of those.
The Journal reports a Dell VP of worldwide marketing as saying the firm wants to sell computer chip designs that have a lot of customer momentum behind them.
Dell will instead focus on selling iAMD64 Xeons in the future, according to the newspaper.
Intel iAMD64 Xeons are compatible with AMD 64-32 Opterons, and there is much porting of software to the iAMD64 platform. The Itanium has lacked that kind of software support, despite billions being poured into the effort. In this respect, an absurdly cynical person might describe the Itanium as Intel's OS/2.
Still, Intel claims there's still a solid market for the Itanium and 70 firms make computers using the ill-starred flagship. µ
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26181
A simple mistake isn't the end of the world guys.
Shouldn't that word be comparable and not compatible? Cause I don't believe there are any Intel cpu's that are compatible with Amd cpu's. LOL
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