Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Feb 2006 13:34 UTC
"Many people in the industry assumed that Itanium had a low - and poor - profile among end users. That was what the folks at IDC assumed until recently, when they surveyed 500 members of their Enterprise Server Customer Panel. The results were somewhat surprising, they said. Not only was there a high level of awareness among the users - more than 80 percent knew of the platform - but that their intent to buy an Itanium system was fairly strong. About 24 percent of those polled said they had bought at least one Itanium system, though only 13 percent of non-HP users had done so. However, more than a third of all participants said they were highly likely to buy an Itanium system within the next 12 to 18 months."
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Not only that but the Itanium itself is an in-order processor, which suggest that the original author of the coment regarding the out-of-ordeness of the X86 and IA64 has not a single clue about what out-of-order is....
True - I read the post a few times and I did a "what tha!?".
It has only been a recent development that RISC based processors like SPARC and POWER have included OOE - the idea of RISC was to keep it as simple as possible push the heavy lifting over to the compiler and let the clock speed sort the rest out.
Itanium, when the idea was floated, you could say that Itanium is RISC taken to the absolute extreme of reductionness (yes, a nice GWB'ism when required) - compiler did the work and the CPU kept simple.
The reality is, however, the theory vs. the pratical real world work that needs to be done in business never actually line up and thus compromises needed to be made, OOE was added for one thing.
What Itanium needs is volume, a push for technical workstation software along with workstations sold at the same price as a high end Opteron from a name brand company, coupled with a good number of operating systems provided the necessary flag ship platform in which third party vendors can base their applications upon.