Comments on: Intel scraps once-crucial Itanium feature

The next Itanium chip will no longer include a feature that Intel once banked on, but that never proved successful.

[libertyforall1776]

So why are they trying to raise the Itanic?

So why are they trying to raise the Itanic?
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[redstarSQD]

:)

very funny...made it well worth while typing something.

drole = )

[Greenbeanx]

Why use Itanium 32-bit or 64bit?

Whats the point in using Itaniums 32-bit emulation.. It never worked anyway and theres no point in using there 64 bit intstructions. Intel doesn't think so since, I believe, they are licensing AMD's 64 bit intstructions for there Pentium 4 line of chips. AMD has shown you can have 32 and 64 bit without any preformance hits. Maybe Intanium was designed ahead of its time and could not compete with newer technology

[mortis9]

i don't think so...

if i remember correctly: according to the lawsuit from yesteryear, between AMD and Intel, Intel isn't required to pay licensing on any AMD patents, though AMD is required to do so on Intel's. Seems bogus, but I believe that is still the case.