Dell drops Itanium-based workstation

[NFS4]

http://www.ebnews.com/story/OEG20020211S0081

 

[AMDPwred]

I thought that happened a few months ago?

 

[NFS4]

<< I thought that happened a few months ago? >>


I think that it was a rumour a few months ago.

Rumor Mill

 

[AMDPwred]

Ah

 

[Chadder007]

Hmm...I wonder why. Are there any benchmarks on these processors yet?

 

[AGodspeed]

Actually it's very old news. Aceshardware and a bunch of other credible sites were reporting this news almost 2 months ago....

Btw, I don't see why that link is "Rumor Mill".

 

[NFS4]

<< Actually it's very old news. Aceshardware and a bunch of other credible sites were reporting this news almost 2 months ago....

Btw, I don't see why that link is "Rumor Mill". >>


There's a DIFFERENCE. I even ran that story on the AT front page...but it was not confirmed. It just said "sources from within the company."

This is an official annoucement...

 

[AGodspeed]

<<

<< Actually it's very old news. Aceshardware and a bunch of other credible sites were reporting this news almost 2 months ago....

Btw, I don't see why that link is "Rumor Mill". >>


There's a DIFFERENCE. I even ran that story on the AT front page...but it was not confirmed. It just said "sources from within the company."

This is an official annoucement... >>



Well.....I guess. But take, for example, when The EETimes reported that AMD would acquire Alchemy. It took one week for AMD to make an official announcement about it. EWeek and the EETimes aren't going to publish stuff from their "sources" unless it's nearly certain to be true.....

 

[Gunbuster]

Looks to me like the dell, HP, and SGI Itanium cases are all the same. SGI must be hitting hard times to not do a custom case for the thing (or just rebadging a full intell designed box?)

For a $10k+ workstation it should look slick like the new SGI fuel, no wonder dell cant sell the things

 

[pm]

<< For a $10k+ workstation it should look slick like the new SGI fuel, no wonder dell cant sell the things. >>

I don't think that I've ever even looked at the case of the box under my desk. It could be a beige brick and I wouldn't care at all. About all I care about is how much faster it lets me get the compute intensive parts of my job done. I currently have an HP C3700 and I don't think that I've ever even glanced at anything other than the LED status bar on the front of it and I think it runs a heck of a lot more than $10k retail.

As far as the thread/article, I probably shouldn't comment - except to say that McKinley will rock.

 

[AGodspeed]

As far as the thread/article, I probably shouldn't comment - except to say that McKinley will rock.

Yeah I know, I saw those specs man. Looks great.

Good job!

 

[pm]

<< Yeah I know, I saw those specs man. Looks great. Good job! >>

Thanks. We are all looking forward to the upcoming release. After our ISSCC presentations last week (my paper included), the whole team is feeling pretty good.

Chadder, here's a link to Itanium benchmarks.

 

[AGodspeed]

Thanks. We are all looking forward to the upcoming release.

Speaking of release, is McKinley due this summer?

 

[MasterHoss]

I bet it's more a combination of Dell getting hit hard by the times and maybe the possible inquiries from companies trying to implement software that won't work on that chip.

 

[pm]

<< Speaking of release, is McKinley due this summer? >>

I think the official line that I was told to recite at ISSCC was "The McKinley microprocessor is on track for a mid-2002 release".

 

[AGodspeed]

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<< Speaking of release, is McKinley due this summer? >>

I think the official line that I was told to recite at ISSCC was "The McKinley microprocessor is on track for a mid-2002 release". >>



Thanks.

 

[Random Variable]

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<< For a $10k+ workstation it should look slick like the new SGI fuel, no wonder dell cant sell the things. >>

I don't think that I've ever even looked at the case of the box under my desk. It could be a beige brick and I wouldn't care at all. About all I care about is how much faster it lets me get the compute intensive parts of my job done. I currently have an HP C3700 and I don't think that I've ever even glanced at anything other than the LED status bar on the front of it and I think it runs a heck of a lot more than $10k retail. >>


Why on earth do a have HP-UX workstation, and how on earth can you afford it?

 

[pm]

<< Why on earth do a have HP-UX workstation, and how on earth can you afford it? >>

Because that's what my employer gives me to work on? That and the dual-head 22" monitors. I'm pretty impressed with the C3700's and HP-UX 11.0i. Pretty fast - a heck of a lot faster than any of the Sun stuff particularly on FP, and the OS has been very stable for me so far.

 

[BFG10K]

There's little to be surprised about this announcement considering Itanium could never make it as a desktop processor in the first place. The main problem is its slow 32 bit code emulation which is unnacceptable in today's desktop market.

 

[Pariah]

Itanium was never at any point intended to be a desktop CPU, nor will McKinley. I don't see any thing surprising about the announcement at all. Itanium was a practice run for Intel in the 64bit arena. I doubt even they thought they would sell that many systems. Almost everyone was waiting for McKinley. If it bombs, then Intel may have to rethink a few things. Not likely though.