Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:30:53 03/18/03
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On March 18, 2003 at 14:04:56, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. Go to pricewatch, search for "Itanium". You can buy 'em new in the box for $2,700 dollars, which is actually cheaper than you can buy 2M L2 cache xeon-MP chips for. For big boxes you can spend as much as you want. The NEC box looks best and scales to 32 processors for $400,000 or so. 8 starts at just over $100,000. > >And that price won't get cheaper at all That price will fall just like all _other_ PC prices have fallen. > >So forget itanium2 unless you have access to a supercomputer that has them.
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