I generally don’t talk about CPU architectures since it seems to be something you really care about or something you pretty much ignore. As you an guess I really find CPU architectures rather interesting. In the past I wrote about an article talking about Itanium not living up to its promise and guess what it’s still not. Though it is used for process intensive systems (same that SPARC is used for) it really still is a niche chip. The good news is this niche chip is at least growing in sales. I don’t care if some people think it’s dying cause I think it has more then enough life in it. Not to mention the fact that some of the best OSs out there run on it (OpenVMS and many of the nixes oh and don’t forget Windows Server) so it is not like SPARC which offers less in the way of compatibility. So I guess what I am saying is this article is probably right though I think its a bit to negative on Itanium though I might be saying this since I have a soft spot for alternate CPU architectures.
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