Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
by fpoling on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:50AM
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If I had to bet on the reason of Itanium failure, I would also choose AMD64. But not because it was cheap, but because it had x86 in the name. For some reason whenever Intel tried to abandon x86, they failed, like Itanium, i960, XScale.
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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
by tyingq on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:57AM
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Perhaps. At least where I was, though, it was the cost factor. We liked Solaris better than Linux. But big Solaris Sparc servers (and every other RISC server too) were 6 figure purchases, with accompanying big support contracts. A high end 4 way x86-64 box was much lower initial cost, and much lower recurring cost. They did start lowering prices when they saw the shift, but too little, too late.