@Matt Bryant
As I wrote in another thread, what do you say about my suspciion? Could it have some plausbiility?
"I begin to suspect this. What do you say about my suspicion?
Intel has never earlier built an enterprise cpu with RAS functionality. x86 is too buggy and bloated, says several experts:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3593
So, Intel wanted to learn to build high RAS cpus, they worked with HP (which knows that). Intel learned RAS via Itanium, and incorporated RAS into x86. So know x86 has almost the same RAS as enterprise Itanium. So Intel were never really interested in Itanum, but only wanted to learn how to build RAS cpus. And now Intel has learned RAS from HP, so Intel is not really interested in Itanium anymore. Intel is betting on x86 cpus with RAS.
That is my suspiciion. What do you say?
(Too bad that x86 is too buggy and bloated to ever rival Itanum, no matter how much RAS Intel builds in. Only RAS will not give you the same stability as Itanium. The Itanium is much cleaner architecture and it is difficult to get stability with a shitty x86 instruciton set, no matter how much RAS you build in)"