Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 20:55:07 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 05:51:51, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 03, 2003 at 05:31:15, Tony Werten wrote: > >>http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/07/01&pages=02&seq=3 >> >>Tony > >Interesting news. Some things the article says makes me think this is nothing to >get excited about. > >"targeting the high-priced, back-end server market" - This makes me think >"nothing new here, the Itanium has been out of the price range of everyone for >years anyway." I can't imagine them competing with the Opteron (much less >Athlon64) if they can't come way down in price. > >It says something about a lower end cpu for workstations, but the way they put >it (maybe it's just the writer), it makes it sound (to me) that the high-end >Itanium will still be significantly more than the Opteron, and the low-end >Itanium will still be significantly more than the Athlon64, and that the >really-low-end Xeon might be in the price range of the Opteron. > Not if the pricing of the Opteron 246 2Ghz is $2100.00 a pop, as is suggested here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20030701021703.html kp > >"Intel servers containing eight to 128 Itanium processors..." > >So Bob, what is the expected speedup of Crafty on a 128-Itanium machine? :)
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