Help Intel Check You Intuition. Hard time for Intel to make bussiness decisions

[Nitin Mangi 0]

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Much to Wall Street's dismay, Intel is continuing to invest billions of dollars in Itanium, a chip that most of the industry has written off.

Itanium, Xeon, Woodcrest and Opteron

Itanium introduced after ten years in 2001, with no 64-bit software to run and its crappy performance for 32-bit software is already cost a lot to Intel. AMD took the advantage and with its Opteron chip in 2003 which ran both 32-bit and 64-bit software.

Intels effort to adapt a 32-bit chip to run 64-bit software also (Xeon) is no good either until Dual core processors are released. It appears to be a hard time for Intel if it still has to invest in Itanium.

Woodcrest another Intel's codename for an upcoming 32/64-bit server chip which Intel claims will outperform AMD's offerings.

IBM and Dell already shifted to make servers with AMD's Opteron chips. Sun also abandoned its plans to port its Solaris operating system for Itanium systems.

Is spending billions of dollars in Itanium a wise decision?
Edited March 12, 2006 by Nitin Mangi (see edit history)

[Saint_Michael 3]

millions in actual production and designing, but only billions in stock though. But I think though AMD is pretty good for what its supposed to. both amd and celeron are pretty good for the computer systems that have been coming out in the last few years. But of course I never touch a computer that had Itanium, running though, mostly been running pentium processors on the computer I used.

[Nitin Mangi 0]

millions in actual production and designing, but only billions in stock though. But I think though AMD is pretty good for what its supposed to. both amd and celeron are pretty good for the computer systems that have been coming out in the last few years. But of course I never touch a computer that had Itanium, running though, mostly been running pentium processors on the computer I used.

Yaa in personal computing too, Intel is loosing its market share to AMD 64 bit processors for Desktops and Notebooks.

Intel ready to see yet another Inflection Point I Guess