Megjelent egy
érdekes cikk a news.com-on az Itaniumról, annak jövőjéről és múltjáról. Sejtem, hgoy sokaknak nem fog tetszeni a benne írtak, de még a fanoknak is érdemes elolvasni, mert sok érdekes infó található benne.
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In the third quarter of this year, 7,845 Itanium servers were sold, according to research by Gartner. That compares with 62,776 machines with Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc, 31,648 with IBM's Power, and 9,147 with HP's PA-RISC.
Érdekes. 7%-os részesedés az eladott szerverek alapján. Meglepő, hogy az US4-es gépek átlagos eladási ára milyen alacsony.
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The future looks unlikely to get better, said Kevin Krewell, editor-in-chief of industry newsletter Microprocessor Report. "It's not promising. It has a space that will be there for a number of years, but it's been marginalized," Krewell said. "It's not hard to see that Itanium is not going to go much beyond the niche of replacing Alpha and PA-RISC."
Örülök neki, hogy más is hasonlóan látja a szitut, mint én.
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Intel and HP acknowledge they've had challenges with Itanium but staunchly defend the effort. "I think it's doing very well," said Lisa Graff, general manager of Intel's high-end server group. She points to gains in Itanium's scaled-back mission of replacing Power, UltraSparc and other reduced instruction set computing (RISC) chips and observes that half of the world's 100 biggest companies use Itanium systems.
"I think Itanium is still the architecture for the next 20 years," Graff said. "It's the newest architecture that has come out. It has the headroom. I think the RISC architectures will run out of steam."
Ez is egy vélemény, bár elég nehezen védhető. Bár persze neki kötelessége ilyeneket mondani.
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"Once AMD showed Intel what do with x86--adding 64-bit support--that was the end of Itanium right there. When Intel announced it was going to do (64-bit x86 chips), it was obvious Itanium was irrelevant for anything but the high end of the market," said Peter Glaskowsky, an Envisioneering analyst and chief architect of start-up MemoryLogix.
Érdekes, hogy ezt akkoriban milyen sokan nem akarták elfogadni. Pedig az Intel tavaly év eleji 64 bites bejelentése után ez már tisztán látszott.
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Sun created a version of Solaris for Itanium in the 1990s.
Erről fogalmam sem volt.
Érdekes.
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"Originally, Itanium was envisioned as an architecture to replace the entire spectrum, and that turned out to be overly ambitious."
--Rich Marcello, general manager, HP's Business Critical Server group
Hát igen. Ha időben kijött volna (90-es évek vége), ha nem pukkadt ki volna a dotcom lufi, ha a MErced tudta volna mindazt amit ígért, ha az AMD nem jön ki a 64 bites Opteronokkal, akkor talán másképp alakult volna. De túl sok a "ha".
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Behind the scenes, there had been another Itanium shift. An ambitious future-generation product code-named Tanglewood had been planned with as many as 16 processing cores, according to a source familiar with the plan and a document about the chip seen by CNET News.com. But in December 2003, Intel announced the model would be called Tukwila instead--quietly moving to a more conventional design that had four or more cores, slated for release in 2007.
Erről a 16 core-ról még nem hallottam. Impresszív lett volna pedig.
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The new direction diminished Itanium's potential influence. "Each time, it was whittled to a smaller and smaller niche, trying to make it more successful," Krewell said.
In 2004, Intel acknowledged that Itanium shipments weren't meeting the company's goals--it had hoped to double its chip sales total in 2004, from 100,000 in 2003.
Szerény számításaim szerint idén 150-200 ezer Itaniumot adhat el az Intel. Persze ebben nagy a bizonytalansági faktor, mert az egy szerverre jutó átlagos processzorszámot csak tippelni lehet. Túl nagy eltérés azonban ettől nem nagyon lehet, a 200 ezer feletti processzorszám nagyon nem valószínű.
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Unfortunately, 5,000 applications still isn't enough.
Chris Koppe, CEO of Quebec-based Speedware and a board member of the Encompass HP user group, has seen firsthand the importance of the missing Itanium software as his company helps customers migrate off the HP 3000, an earlier server line that's being phased out. About 70 percent of those customers are moving to HP-UX, and of those about half are still buying PA-RISC servers and half Itanium, Koppe said.
"We've had some Itanium prospects who had to go back to PA-RISC because their (software) tools weren't available on Itanium," Koppe said, adding that the tide is slowly turning.
Jól hangzik az 5000 szoftver, de ahogy látszik mégsem elég.
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