Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:20:44 02/21/03
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On February 21, 2003 at 10:23:19, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On February 21, 2003 at 09:47:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>That logic is circular. They can make faster xeons but they can't make faster >>Itaniums??? > >Besides the fact that P4 is orders of magnitude less complex than Itanium, there >are several reasons why P4 can ramp up in clockspeed much faster than Itanium. >If P4 suddenly makes a huge jump, Itanium may be able to jump also, but nowhere >near as much. It's not as if Itanium machines are selling like hotcakes as it >is, so I'm sure Intel wouldn't be too happy if the Xeon starts eating into that >segment of the market more than it already has. I would think they would be more than interested in clocking beyond the PPC4, the alphas, the HP PAs, the MIPS 64 bitters, and so forth... They don't sell as many, but the profit margin is _way_ larger up there on that end of the server spectrum.
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