[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[JF Mezei]

BTW, I think May or early June 2011 will be the 10th anniversary of
first boot of Windows on that IA64 thing. (You will recall it happened
just before the murder of Alpha).

So if there were 10 year commitments to subsidize this expensive low
volume proprietary chip, it might end there.

If HP ends up funding IA64, Intel will gladly continue as long as Intel
itself doesn.t lose money. (aka: Intel doesn't care if Ia64 is not
profitable as long as HP funds it).


During its history, IA64 has only had a few months where its performance
was interesting before it was surpassed by another acrchitecture. And
for Tukwila, it was late enough that it appears its performance was
already lagging when it was released.