Itanium skal være i egen klasse

[int20h]

Itanium skal være i egen klasse

Intel tror neppe det vil være et problem for Itanium å ikke være kompatibel med x86-plattformen. Itanium skal være i sin egen klasse og implementeres kun i de største serversystemene.

 

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[snorreh]

Hewlett-Packard vil trolig ble en meget sentral frontfigur for Intel for å øke utbredelsen av Itanium. Intel har fortsatt partnerstatus med Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Silicon Graphics og Unisys.

 

Intel har spyttet inn enorme investeringer i IA-64, men kan vel fortsatt ikke sies å ha fått det helt store gjennombruddet - til tross for at segmentet var verdt 1,4 milliarder ved det siste årsskiftet.

Det er likevel milevis fra det som opprinnelig var tenkt:

 

Intel misses Itanium sales mark by $26.6bn

If everything had gone according to plan, sales of Itanium-based servers would have totaled $28bn in 2004. That figure takes into account boom-time spending, flawless execution from Intel and widespread support for the chip. How far did Itanium end up from this vision of perfection? Really bloody far.

 

Total Itanium server sales hit $1.4bn in 2004, according to IDC. The same analyst firm tossed out the $28bn figure in 2000 right before the first Itanium chip hit the market. It must be comforting for those of you who pay IDC thousands of dollars to see it miss a forecast by 95 per cent. Mostly pleased Intel investors must also be a tad curious about promises unkept.

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HP accounted for an amazing 76 per cent of those shipments, solidifying its place as the only Itanium vendor of real consequence. IBM finished a distant second in the Itanium market with 10 per cent share, and it's about to dump its entire line of Itanium servers.

 

Dell managed to capture 5 per cent of the Itanium market with 1,371 server sales last year, Gartner said. Dell claims it only sells what customers ask for - hence the lack of Opteron systems - but these Itanic figures beg to differ.

 

Dell shipped 378 Itanium servers last quarter, according to Gartner. We understand a new heating system in Michael Dell's Alaskan cabin may have accounted for half of these systems while the other boxes likely went to anyone willing to buy a Dell DJ MP3 player.

 

SGI moved just over 1,000 boxes to take 4 per cent of the market, and Fujitsu finished fifth with a whopping 233 systems sold in all of 2004, giving it 1 per cent of the market. Groupe Bull, NEC, Legend, LangChao and Unisys rounded out the top ten Itanium vendors - each managing to convince a few close, personal friends to take some Itanic kit off their hands.

 

It's not a stretch to say that Itanium was one factor in HP CEO Carly Fiorina's dismissal. The chip's slow adoption caused HP to miss out on a lot of high-end server revenue as PA-RISC and Alpha customers turned to IBM and Sun Microsystems rather than be forced to board the Itanic. The dearth of high-end sales hurt HP's hardware margins and contributed to large quarterly fluctuations that made HP appear operationally inefficient.

Endret 9. mars 2005 av snorreh

[efikkan]

Skal alså Itanium ombygges/rekonstrueres innen 2007??

[Boralis]

En eller annen gang i fremtiden kommer Xeon og Itanium til å få samme grensesnitt. Et mulig tidspunkt for dette foreslås til 2007 (blant annet av Cnet), men dette strider allikevel litt med den strategien man har forespeilet for Itanium som "ensom rytter uten x86-kompatibilitet".

 

Vel kalles ikke dette markedstillpassing

Vil vel være bra å få en større utbredelse av topp produkter

[Malevolence]

orddelingsfeil: topprodukter!!!!

 

uansett, når man lager en cpu som baserer seg såpass mye på cache og da blir ganske dyr å lage + at man trenger programmer som er skrevet i IA-64, er ikke dette annet enn å forvente.