Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jan 2006 20:37 UTC, submitted by Dean Jason
With the next Itanium chip, Intel has abandoned a feature it once banked on but that never proved successful. Circuitry to let Itanium run software for x86 chips, such as Pentium and Xeon chips, is not present in the forthcoming 'Montecito' processor, according to the 176-page reference manual (.pdf) for the chip published this week. Update: El Reg has more on this story.
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2005-07-06
True, hence the reason I can't get over why there was such a big thing made - would have thought it been logical as the software emulation had been mentioned some time before.
As for over all design - it should mean in a reduction in price - but due to Intels insistance of not allowing normal distrinbution channels from selling Itanium motherboards and processors, they can't get the volume up as to produce the economies of scale and reduce the cost to the end customer.
Intel offered me a 'developer workstation' on a 'lease', my response, 'no thank you, I'm not going to start throwing my money into a bottomless pit - either give me the option to purchase a kit which allows me to configure and set it up as I like, or forget about it' - to which the Intel rep tried to 'hold onto me' by saying, 'something will be coming soon like that', over a year and a half later, nothing.
Why doesn't Intel just admit they don't want Itanium to succeed, because it seems they do everything humanly possible to make it a bloody failure.