[ibm-pc] Re: "INT64 Confirmed"

[stano2000 zavinac yahoo bod com (Stanley)]

kujebak zavinac eudoramail bod com (kujebak) wrote in message news:<3cf54f0d 
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> An ententaining, yet strangely sober look at the 
> x86-64/IA-64 dilemma (for all ye computer geeks):
> 
> http://www.overclockers.com/articles913/index.asp
> 

World statictics for CPU sales in Q1 2004:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/28/itanium_opteron_q104/

more than 1m Xeon servers shipped in the quarter

31,184 Opteron boxes were shipped

The latest server data from Gartner shows that only 6,281 Itanium
boxes

...That puts the average sale price of an Itanium server at about
$45,000

My conclusion: Itanium is expensive and on top of that incompatible
CPU with mainstream softvare. It's EPIC architecture needs big shift
in programmer's paradigma and it's software ecosystem will be weak for
at least next 5 years.

AMD Opteron is right step in rights direction - x86 architecture is
here for more than 20 years and it's most vital sofware ecosystem.
Opteron's full 64bit implementation of x86 platform is most practical
for smooth migration from 32bit world, for programmers and also for
cheap and mass production of PC CPUs as it is now in both x86 camps -
Intel or AMD.

Forget about Itanic project, buy any x86 on steroids - either AMD
Opteron now or Intel Yamhill later.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/28/intel_64b_prescott/

stanley