[Info-vax] Poulson info from Dave Cantor

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> So today, Intel and HP are in a codependent relationship.


I am not so sure. I have a *feeling* that Intel is just a contractor,
building IA64 things for HP and  Intel is perfectly happy with the huge
sums of money HP is sending over to continue funding this chip.

> Like a
> thoroughbred horse, this Itanium thing is capable of really high
> performance but one metaphoric accident in the market place may cause
> Itanium to be put down 

I do not see the IA64 as a thouroughbred horse. Seems to me like Intel
started on the wrong foot with it and it is mired in molasses that makes
it very hard to move fast and keep up with the rest of the market.


If Intel was able to turn the 8086 toy controller into a high
performance 64 bit chip, then it should have been able to produce that
IA64 with unmatched performance since it was meant to be a "clean"
design unhindered by the toy controller era of the 8086.

It looks to me like the whole philosophy and architecture of IA64 makes
it very expensive and tedious to upgrade , and this matches what Digital
was saying back in 1999 about it.