[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <k4r5nk$hs7$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 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 ??

And that guy is on vacation.  :-)

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>