Itanium? Itanium?!? (Think Jim Mora - Playoffs? Playoffs?!? rant)

Original url: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2007/02/27/694.aspx 

http://news.com.com/Intel+eyes+the+future+of+Itanium/2008-1006_3-6162338.html?tag=nefd.lede

Outside of a few nitches, I don't see Itanium taking off.  Until software written for commodity hardware (32 bit Windows) runs at full speed and on chip, I don't see the Itanium going anywhere.  Once the software is actually running on the hardware, the next issue will be the general cost of an Itanium system.  With the Core architcture performance improvements that come over time, I just don't see Itanium going anywhere.

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