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David Svensson
CJT said:Without a volume desktop market, I think the Itanium will probably go
the way of the 860.
While ofcourse anything can happen. Comparisons with 860, 960 or other
earlier attempts with Itanium are not really valid. 860 went nowhere
and had no impact at all and the difference in investments with
Itanium are huge. Intel realized in 1997-2000 that Itanium would not
be a desktop product. If that was not OK, they would have dropped it
in 2000-2001. Since then they have marketed it as a high-end product
and unless Intel will get in financial trouble I guess they will
continue with Itanium.