Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:31:58 03/18/03
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On March 18, 2003 at 15:17:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. >> >>And that price won't get cheaper at all >> >>So forget itanium2 unless you have access to a supercomputer that has them. > >Pricing information (cheapest I could find): >http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/itanium/zx6000/summary.html Not bad. Dual for just over $6,000 would be a blast for a certain chess program. :)
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