Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 11:04:56 03/18/03
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On March 17, 2003 at 19:49:30, leonid wrote: >On March 17, 2003 at 19:30:35, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 17, 2003 at 19:17:38, leonid wrote: >>[snip] >>>It is truly sad that this kind of chip (Alpha) went to its end! Still, other >>>fact of migration to the new Itanium chip is very positive. This signify that >>>Intel's 64 chip had certain success and its quantity production is coming in >>>real. Then prices cuts should become tangible very soon. >> >>Intel is in no hurry to get the Itanic floating, and has said so themselves. >> >>Look for AMD to beat them out the door with cost effective volumes by a >>landslide. >> >>Microsoft also prefers the AMD approach, since all the old software will run >>without any modification. > >To be sincere I do know that AMD chip will be more accessible for me to buy but >Intel's chip more attractive to program. Intel's 128 registers do make me dream >without even mentioning its new architecture. Learning completely new Assembler >will be also interesting thing to do. $65000 for a 4 processor 1Ghz I2 box. Or if you buy 1 chip in a small 4 x 4 centimeter paper box it will be 'only $10000' or so. And that price won't get cheaper at all So forget itanium2 unless you have access to a supercomputer that has them.
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