Intel Itanium

[Walter Dnes]

  Here's an anonymous post from approximately 5 years ago with a cynical
take on Itanium...


Is Microsoft responsible for Intel's Itanic disaster?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21 2006 @ 04:12 PM EST
There was no Itanic disaster.

Remember, when Intel started the Itanium bluff, they hand zero presence
in 64-bit computing and very limited presence in high-end computing.
Leading 64-bit players were MIPS/SGI, Alpha/Dec, PA-RISC/HP, and yes,
IBM and Sparc.

In fear of Itanium, SGI spun-off MIPS and became a Wintel reseller.
Compaq feared Itanium would quickly kill DEC's Alpha and gave it to
Intel when they bought DEC. HP redirected their hardware resources away
from PA-RISC to their intel/itanium partnership.

Without laying out a single transistor, Itanium completely destroyed 3
of the 5 64-bit competitors; and Intel went from being a PC desktop
brand to a wall-street-recognised leader in high-end computing.

Never was there a more successful bluff in business. I don't see how
people can consider that a failure.


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