Originally posted by: clarkey01
Intella, I dont understand "If there was a chip to be late it is this one?"
Intel spent billions, told the world and dog X86 was doomed, and Itanium was coming. All this was in 1994. It has missed projections by miles and is always outsold by opteron (X86 appears in good health if you ask me).
Im not saying it's useless, I couldnt say that, due to the facts it's just not true. But I dont see the fuss nor does anyone of this thread so far concerning IA64.
IA64/Prescott/Netburst in general have been let downs (Northwood is let off).
		
		
	 
  The reason I said that if ever a chip had a right to be late it was this chip' Just the sheer complexity of the Arch .Is bewildering !
   I well lay off the Itanic thing here. Only because it is the last key to the Zinnite puzzle. so no more talk of the Itanic .(from me you can rattle on all you want)
   Netburst - Seems its going away but the benefits that it brought to Intel in knowlegde alone was well worth the trip down this road ! Intel learned much from this and it well benefit to all us Intel user for years to come.
   P4P Vs P4C this is so funny its almost unbelievable . I well not go into this much but anyone who thinks Intel was trying for better arch. on the P4P is out to lunch. P4C was much more complacated than P4P the P4C was also more expensive for intel to produce. 
 Intel for some reason believed the 90nano tech and longer pipes would scale to  5GHz well it couldn't and that is the biggest mistake Intel ever made. 
    So what happened with the P4P. Well AMD 64 happened and Intel rather than making a sound rational decision. threw together the P4P and thats exactly the way this cpu was created it was thrown together with very little thought and its performance showed it
   The thing is the Intel put together this terriable CPU and has made more money off of this crap processor than AMD has made in its entire history. lol
   
   Is Intel strong arming people I don't know and really don't care .  If I was Mike Dell I would  catter to Intel . Think about it AMD can't supply the chips!!!!
   I recently read an article comparing Cpu's to the human brain that was so funny.
   
    Scientist for the past 100 years have been asking why there's not any silcon based life any ware. Well now they no why. Silcon well not scale down small enough. As we already know carbon based computing is years away but it well scale way down and even be cells, billions of cells just like the human brain . So we can talk Silcon all day all night it won't change the fact that in the end. It well be billions of carbon based cell processors that well rule in the end with a central processor.  Bell labs has some very interesting   
Tech . going on right now if your a techy go visit Bell Labs. Its good its all speculation but these are the things dreams are based on.
  
  One thing that is a true statement. I am very happy I have my $$$$$ and not yours.