Research firm IDC has drastically cut its estimates for future sales of Intel’s 64bit Itanium processors. Meanwhile, the Risc processors that Itanium is intended to rival in high-end servers are still being developed.
HP is leading the Itanium charge, accounting for some 80 percent of Itanium systems sold in Europe. Meanwhile, Intel is funding a “buy one get one free” deal, so firms get a free Itanium chip for every one they buy in a server. This seems to be a move to maintain price/performance against stiff competition from IBM’s Power5+ and Sun’s UltraSparc T1, formerly codenamed Niagara. Meanwhile, Intel’s dual-core Itanium, codenamed Montecito, has been delayed again, and is now unlikely to reach customers before August.
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