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Sunny Gardens℠ Lounge => Open Topic => : ohcnetwork January 26, 2006, 08:23:16 PM
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Allies pledge $10 billion to boost Itanium
SAN FRANCISCO--Intel, Hewlett-Packard and seven other server companies will spend $10 billion through 2010 to try to increase adoption of the Itanium processor.
The money is coming from Intel and HP--Itanium's co-developers and top backers--as well as from Unisys, Silicon Graphics Inc., NEC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens and Groupe Bull. The companies said Thursday that they will spend the money on research and development, marketing, and work to help software companies support the high-end processor.
"Itanium has been taking share from both IBM power and Sun Sparc. We're on the right trajectory, but we want to go faster," Tom Kilroy, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, said at a press event here. "The $10 billion investment is a statement that we want to accelerate as a unified body."
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Intel is a very very successful company, but the company made a mistake or two in the past, and Itanium is one of them in my opinion. It hasn't really taken off, and its future doesn't look great. Is Itanium going to take off ever?