Intel woke up from its frequency delusion and is now going full-bore on dual-core.
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Certainly it's at least at the same level of sophistication that Office 97 was in terms of features and capabilities, which is enough for most people, ... Microsoft seems determined to see how much money it can squeeze out of buyers, but in doing so, they're opening up an opportunity for somebody else to come in.
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A number of companies are starting to look at supercomputing for various data analysis applications.
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Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.
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I don't think Microsoft had much choice in the matter. The bottom line is there is not a whole lot of market to buy that product from Microsoft.
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The fact that Itanium didn't take off as expected is really because it is only in certain types of applications such as databases that there was a driving need to go beyond 32-bit to the larger memory you see in RISC servers today. But 64-bit extensions to x86 are here, and there is no penalty to having a server that is capable of supporting 64-bit, whether you need it or not. That's the nice thing about the x64 approach.
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