Aceshardware Forum Index Aceshardware
(not so) temporary home for the aceshardware community
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups    RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

No word on Itanium family?

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Aceshardware Forum Index -> General forum
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
ten9



Joined: 19 Sep 2007
Posts: 4
PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:23 am    Post subject: No word on Itanium family? Reply with quote
A lot a buzz about x86 family platforms and cpu's. Nothing about Itanium. In my opinion Intel wants us to forget all about Itanium.
Can we interpret this as a silent admission of Itanium being a mistake?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Carfax



Joined: 07 Aug 2007
Posts: 40
PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:07 pm    Post subject: Re: No word on Itanium family? Reply with quote
ten9 wrote:
A lot a buzz about x86 family platforms and cpu's. Nothing about Itanium. In my opinion Intel wants us to forget all about Itanium.
Can we interpret this as a silent admission of Itanium being a mistake?


I imagine that we'll hear something on Itanium as the IDF continues; perhaps today even. It is a multi-day event afterall.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Paul DeMone



Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 530
Location: Great white north
PostPosted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: Re: No word on Itanium family? Reply with quote
ten9 wrote:
A lot a buzz about x86 family platforms and cpu's. Nothing about Itanium. In my opinion Intel wants us to forget all about Itanium.
Can we interpret this as a silent admission of Itanium being a mistake?


There was a set of major announcements about IPF in June. The major
ones were:

1) The socket compatible follow-on to Tukwila, Poulson will have an
all new microarchitecture and will skip 45 nm and go straight to 32 nm.
This will mean IPF will finally be on process parity with Xeon

2) The development of a follow-on to Poulson, Kittson, was announced.
This extends IPF's public roadmap past 2012.

3) Intel is using two separate full design teams to develop future IPF
products in a partially overlapping parallel fashion. In the x86 realm
Intel calls this tick tock.

These announcements are hardly indicative of Intel weakening its
committment to IPF. Quite the opposite IMO and probably related
to the Montecito-driven 2x revenue/unit sales boost last year pushing
the business past internal milestones for profitability etc and opening
up new resources for R&D.

As far as IDF announcements about IPF goes, there is a meeting of
the Gelato organization on October 1-2. Intel will probably save most
IPF related disclosures for this meeting so they won't be lost among
the 32 nm test chips, Nehalem demo, Larrabee etc.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Aceshardware Forum Index -> General forum All times are GMT + 1 Hour
Page 1 of 1   

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


Powered by phpBB
Hosted by FreeForums.org