[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[David Froble]

JF Mezei wrote:
> On 12-10-06 16:48, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> 
>> At least one can now buy shiny new Power7+ servers,
>> whereas intel/HP apparently are still struggling
>> to get Poulson out the door.
> 
> Out of curiosity, are there any hints/news of problems/struggle forcing
> a delay ?
> 
> This image I have is of a very relaxed development cycle with the chip
> no longer having to compete against others, and just needing to provide
> big performance improvement over Tukwila. So it shouldn't be hard for
> them to release something on schedule.
> 
> It isn't as if IA64 was on an agressive development schedule with huge
> expectations of performance to compete against x86, sparc and Power. Its
> role is to give existing installed base something to upgrade to.
> 
> So its only competitor is Tukwila.
> 
> 
> And considering HP has all but written off BCS, it seems to me that
> there won't be much pressure on Intel to increase performance, the
> pressure will be to release a chip on the agreed upon schedule.
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I seem to recall from discussions about Alpha that there were claims 
that chip development, maybe testing, was rather labor intensive. 
Perhaps there aren't very many people working on IA-64 ??