[Info-vax] Itanium in the news (NOT)

[Neil Rieck]

On Dec 22, 1:08 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:

>
> Itanium never took off. It is left now as an HP chip
> developped/manufactured under contract by Intel. Tukwila will come out
> sometime next year, but the pieces have now been set for the 8086 to
> take over. Quickpath, multicore, shared caches between cores. It's got
> what it takes now to scale up and is first to market.
>

How many times have we heard that Tukwila will come out in the next
year? The second coming of JC may happen before Tukwilia.

Oh and BTW, Merry Christmas to you all.

NSR