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The death of Itanium?

If there is anyone out there that still thinks Itanium is a good idea, check this out:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/18/redhat_rhel6_itanium_dead/

The sooner it goes the better.

Cheers

Tim…

Comments 3

  1. Naresh wrote:

    Why do you say Itanium is not a good idea? I have no particular opinion about Itanium – just curious why you say so. I hope the answer is simple enough to repsond to a comment :) .

    Thanks,
    Naresh

    Posted 20 Dec 2009 at 3:35 pm
  2. Tim... wrote:

    Hi.

    The price/performance ratio has always been terrible compared to the regular chips. Yes they worked faster, but at what cost? Even back in the bad old Xeon days, I would have picked Xeons over Itanium if I could.

    I’ve spoken to some insiders at a well known vendor, who were the main proponents of Itanium, and they said it sucked, but it suited their business model.

    I’m sure lots of lessons were learned from it as a technology, but IA-64 never took off and now the latest batch of X86-64 processors blow them out of the water, so the end is nigh… :)

    Cheers

    Tim…

    Posted 21 Dec 2009 at 10:17 am
  3. Naresh wrote:

    Thanks for your response Tim.

    Posted 10 Jan 2010 at 5:07 pm

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