Intel is finally shipping the 64-bit Itanium

[Bari Ari]

John Burton wrote:

> 
> Later on in the article it mentions that "actual" (not initial) prices 
> would be more along the lines of $1000 for the 733Mhz...
> 
The Itaniums will make for nice SMP clusters though with its fast front 
side bus. Multiple IA-64s sharing a FSB along with many GB of shared 
memory and Infinband for very fast interconnects will be nice. Clusters 
will probably have a completely different face a year from now. It will 
probably be another year until the AMD Hammer series comes out that 
there is a real price drop in the processors.

Bari