Comments on: Itanium not meeting Intel's goals

In a rare admission, an Intel executive says the Itanium chip family still isn't living up to expectations.

[fred dunn]

Itanium is another RAMBUS for Intel...

Just as was the case with RAMBUS when Intel knew better than the end user as to what they wanted and needed, so too is the saga of Itanium.
NOTE TO INTEL: Listen to your users! The time you had when you could shove unwanted technology onto the masses because you were the only player ARE OVER!
As an Analyst and end user I laugh at Intel's arrogance to further push an unwanted product because they think it's what we want. But as a shareholder I would not be quite as amused. If Intel would form up a collection of tech saavy end users (Not Corporate Pencil Pushers that ooh and ahh about anything Intel presents to them on a Powerpoint presentation) and listen to their ideas and opinions then Intel would not be killing as many projects as they do today. Be assured that those projects cost millions and very little comes of them other than new insight into which direction they SHOUL NOT be headed.

Fred Dunn

[alek_nedic]

NOTE TO INTEL

http://www.analogstereo.com/vacuum/miele_s558_s658.htm

AMD64 and EM64T

"Intel was forced to announce EM64T earlier than it hoped, because rival Advanced Micro Devices was stealing too much thunder with its own version of the technology, AMD64 ..."

It would be more accurate to say that Intel was forced to adopt AMD's AMD64 instruction set and brand it EM64T.