Intel is finally shipping the 64-bit Itanium

[John Burton]

Later on in the article it mentions that "actual" (not initial) prices 
would be more along the lines of $1000 for the 733Mhz...

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On 5/25/01, 11:28:24 AM, Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> wrote regarding Re: 
Intel is finally shipping the 64-bit Itanium:


> 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



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