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I 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 seg
by Quequau 5y ago
I 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.