[Info-vax] Itanium Kittson lives on?

[JF Mezei]

On 2016-02-10 12:14, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> Text is a bit ambiguous. But sounds like it will be available if you know to ask for it.
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3031703/hardware/intels-itanium-to-live-an-as-hpe-commits-to-new-servers-with-the-chip.html


The way I read this is that the original deal where HP would pay for X
number of iterations that would end with Kittson was still in place.

I am still of the opinion that Kittson will be to Poulson what EV7z was
to EV7. A speed bump, possibly the higher quality chips from the Poulson
run marketed as Kittson because they are capable of higher clock rate.

Since the support clock starts at end of sales, HP could release Kittson
today and keep it in the order books for a few years more.

On the other hand, if they have too much Poulson inventory left, they
want to reduce that as much as they can before releasing kittson.