Tags

32nm 40nm 45nm AMD Android Apple ARM ATI Atom Business Core Fermi Geforce GF100 Google GPGPU Gulftown Intel iPad Maranello Microsoft NV60 Nvidia Opteron Phenom Radeon Semiconductor Sony SSD TSMC


News

 

Bookmark and Share

(0) 
Only 3500 Itanium Processors Sold in 2002. But HP Bets on Itanium. [02/26/2003 04:19 PM]
by Anton Shilov
Intel and HP spent nearly a decade creating and developing Intel’s 64-bit architecture. The first child of the family was born 2 years after the original schedule, but eventually became a rather successful chip after Intel managed to sell more than 70 000 of Itanium processors worldwide to software developers alone. Unfortunately, according to a Bloomberg report, the more powerful Itanium versions of the core did not achieve the results Intel desired from it because the parental company only sold 3500 of them. Despite of this fact, Carly Fiorina, the CEO of HP insists to cancel developing HP’s own processors, but to start pushing the IA64 CPUs more aggressively and to save up to $500 million a year on R&D of PA-RISC processors.

HP plans to adopt Itanium family of processors in all its servers, including the most high-end machines that cost more than $1 million by 2006. Such servers usually bring 35% to 40% profit margins what is considerably higher than 10% on ordinary servers. On the other hand, there are concerns about such servers’ adoption by the industry, keeping in mind the fact that last year Intel sold just 3.5 thousands of Itanium processors last year, according to IDC.

HP co-developed Itanium 2 processors with Intel and, in fact, spent quite a big sum on R&D, hence, now it is logical for it to drop one of its CPU lines and consolidate its server families of CPUs.

It is hard to tell whether Carly Fiorina’s move is the right or wrong one. Her previous decisions were risky, but proved to be wise enough. Now the world is changing and the industry is changing, maybe all those cardinal and sometimes extraordinary decisions are really needed?

Discussion

Comments currently: 0

You must log in to add comments.

Forgot password? Registration

remember me



Related news

Latest News

Friday, March 19, 2010

1:22 pm | Nvidia Has “Tons of Exciting Opportunities” with Tegra – Company. Nvidia Excited About Tegra Prospects with Boosted System-on-Chip Team

5:37 am | Dell Returns Adamo XPS to Own Stores. Dell Adamo XPS Makes Reappearance

Thursday, March 18, 2010

4:57 pm | Sega Expects Microsoft’s Natal to Bring “Brilliant Innovations”. Sega Is Very Positive About Microsoft Natal and Sony Move

3:37 pm | Specifications and Prices of Nvidia GeForce GTX 400-Series Graphics Cards Emerge on the Web [UPDATED]. Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Receives Cut-Down Version of Chip with Only 480 Stream Processors

1:36 pm | HTC Disagrees with Apple, Will Defend Itself in Court. HTC: We Have Consistently Driven Innovation

10:04 am | World’s Largest Book Seller Appoints E-Commerce Specialist as Chief Executive. Appointment of CEO May Point to Barnes & Noble’s Future: Electronic Commerce

7:50 am | Mainboard Maker Reveals Clock-Speeds of AMD Phenom II X6 Microprocessors. Clock-Speeds of AMD Phenom II “Thuban” Unveiled

4:21 am | Nvidia Merges Core-Logic and System-on-Chip Development Teams. Nvidia’s Tegra Development Team Absorbs nForce Crew

more news >>>

Our Sponsors

Western Digital Epiphan Systems