[Info-vax] OT: Intel launches Nehalem server chips

[Neil Rieck]

On Apr 6, 9:37 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > SANTA CLARA, CALIF. – Intel Corp. is calling its Xeon 5500 processor
> > series, announced Monday [Mar-30], the most significant server launch
> > since its Pentium Pro processor in well over a decade,
>
> Quickpath (aka: CSI) had been announced in early 2004 as a common
> interconnect for both the 8086 and IA64 an was to be available in 2007.
> Until recently, the plan was to have IA64 get it first so it would have
> a period where it was ahead of the 8086.
>
> Last I heard, the new IA64 systems won't come until 2010.

I heard that once a chip is developed and is being sold, Intel won't
develop a newer better version until a specified number has been sold
AND there seems to be a market for the "better version". So it all
depends on consumer demand. But what happens when the so-called
commodity product is getting the lion's share of the improvements but
the enterprise version is not? (Hint: the differences between the two
product lines decreases until one of the products is irrelevant.)

NSR