Intel is finally shipping the 64-bit Itanium

[Bari Ari]

Steve Gaudet wrote:

> FYI:http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2765266,00.html
> 
> 
  "Initial price lists indicated that the chip would range in cost from 
$4,227 for an 800MHz Itanium with 4MB of performance-enhancing tertiary 
cache memory to over $3,500 for a 733MHz Itanium with 2MB of tertiary 
cache."

Unless the floating point performance is 22X a PIII or Athlon or until 
the IA-64 prices plummet I don't think we'll be seeing many of these in 
the Beowulf world :-)

Bari