ForwardSlash: Intel cancels Itanium line
Posted by Matthew on Monday February 24, 2003 @08:01PM
from the Dead-on-arrival dept.
Matthew posts from May 2005: Intel announced the cancellation of the unsuccessful Itanium line of microprocessors. Production has already been halted for over a month.
Development of the 64-bit processor that was to have succeeded the x86 line of microprocessors that includes the venerable Pentium 4 as well as the new 5entium (Sentium) line of x86 compatible processors was delayed for years. When the Itanium debuted, it ran at 25% the speed of the existing Pentium 4, and was never able to catch up. The final processors produced run at 2.5Ghz, half the speed of the Sentium line of 64-bit extended x86 processors.
The nail in the coffin of the Itanium was the competing 64-bit processor from AMD. Release in Q1 2004, the Hammer debuted at 3GHz and quickly ramped up from there. The darling of Linux users everywhere, the Hammer was responsible for making Linux/AMD enterprise code run nearly twice as fast as comparable Microsoft/Intel applications. When Microsoft released Windows 2003 Server for the AMD Hammer in Q1 of 2005, existing shipments of Intel processors dropped dramatically, causing the immediate defection of manufacturers such as HP and Dell.
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Subject:More timeline spoilers
Doesn't this mean Intel, after reading /!, will cancel the project early?
Comment by Tyson — February 25, 2003 @ 10:23 am
Subject:Re: More timeline spoilers
Just as we don't worry about the scientific accuracy of our polls, so too are we not concerned with the consequences of our manipulations of space-time.
Comment by Matthew — February 26, 2003 @ 9:57 am
Subject:Re: More timeline spoilers
And we'd probably just end up creating an alternate universe where Itanium gets cancelled sooner. Sounds like a boon to that universe anyway.
Comment by Michael — February 28, 2003 @ 3:27 am