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Reminds me of the AMD ARM server boards, that happened way after Itanium and they still repeated the exact same mistake. Basically there was no way of getting
by sharpneli 5y ago
Reminds me of the AMD ARM server boards, that happened way after Itanium and they still repeated the exact same mistake.
Basically there was no way of getting your hands on them. They were interested only in "Serious customers".
- Quequau 5y agoI presume that the performance segment that Itanium was intended for is Intel's most profitable. So everyone who proposes to make server chips targets that segment, pretty much to the exclusion of everything else. Having seen this play out a number of times I don't think targetting that segment and only that segment is a great idea.
- ethbr0 5y agoI'm convinced sales forecasters don't actually understand how software ecosystems work. From a stack perspective, you can't really go it alone anymore. The total necessary software universe is too large to rebuild on a reasonable timescale, and too expensive to rebuild by oneself. IBM is about the smallest scale that can do this -- and even they're leveraging decades of effort.
- PaulHoule 5y agoIf the market for something is already established it makes sense to stick to "serious customers". If the market isn't established then you may need to get traction with the dreamers and misfits.
- mumblemumble 5y agoI see this happen with software projects, too. For example, I'm pretty sure that this same phenomenon is the main thing that killed Smalltalk.