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

[Arne Vajhøj]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
>> 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.)
> 
> I guess it is a case where:
>    money => priorities
> 
> If both laptop/desktop x86-64 CPU's and server x86-64 CPU's sell
> around 10 B$ per year and Itanium sell around 0.5 B$ per year,
> then ...

The numbers are just guesswork, but ...

Arne