The Future of Itanium: Goat or Game-Changer: Industry Research Report

The Future of Itanium: Goat or Game-Changer

Published Date: July 2006

Published By: Ovum Plc

Page Count: 23

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When Intel and HP first announced plans for Itanium, the chip appeared likely to reshape the entire microprocessor industry. But after continual Intel delays and missteps, it is questionable whether the processor can ever establish a position beyond the niche that Hewlett-Packard has worked so tirelessly to create—especially now that AMD has effectively trumped Intel's mainstream Xeon processor and forced Intel to focus on salvaging its Xeon business.

This report profiles the strengths, limitations and prospects of Itanium relative to competitive offerings and assesses whether HP and the rest of the Itanium ecosystem can muster sufficient momentum to compensate for Intel's errors.

Read this Report to Learn:

The forces that will shape Itanium's future in its two-front war against Power and SPARC at the high end and against Xeon, Opteron and the wild card "scale-out" computing trend at the low end;
The depth of HP's multi-faceted commitment to Itanium and the more tentative support of other key system and software partners; and
The five "steady-state" scenarios for Itanium's future and the breakaway scenario that Intel appears to be secretly following.

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