[Info-vax] Oracle-RDB, Itanimum, Core i7, etc.

[Neil Rieck]

On Mar 22, 11:30 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > I'd bet a week's
> > pay that Intel kills Itanium before 2012.
>
> I think this will be sooner than that. Once CSI (Quickpath?) is out into
> the marletplace and vendors start to sell "mainframe" class 8086
> systems, Intel/HP will not wait 3 years to announce the end of IA64.
> Unlike Alpha, they will wait for hardware to actually be at customers
> with proven performance before announcing the end of that IA64 thing.
>
> I personally wouldn't be surprised to see the announcement by the end of
> 2009.
>
> How much profit do HP-UX/VMS/NSK generate per year in system sales ?
> If HP has to subsidize Intel for IA64 to the tune of $3 billion per
> year, and the above systems don't generate $3 billion worth of profit on
> system sales per year, then HP is better off killing IA64 and going 8086
> for the surviving OS.
>
> Big question is which OS will be ported to 8086.
>
> What percentage of enterprise customers are still on legacy hardware
> (Pa-Risc, Alpha, VAX, MIPS) ?

CSI is part of Core i7 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_i7 ) and is
already available from retailers for personal use:

Gateway Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz Desktop Computer (FX6800-03H)
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10117865&catid&test%5Fcookie=1&test%5Fcookie=1

Not sure when this chip will get into "commercial systems" (whatever
that means in 2009). But in the end, Intel makes money by selling
silicon. And it seems to me that they are about to become distracted
by the next big thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(GPU)

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/