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Subject: Re: New intel 64 bit ?

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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