In a rare admission, an Intel executive said Tuesday that the company’s high-end Itanium chip family still isn’t living up to popularity expectations.
“Are we meeting the specific goals this year? Not to the aggressive levels we’ve set,” Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel’s Enterprise Platform Group, said while answering questions after a speech at the Intel Developer Forum here. Intel once positioned Itanium as the chip that would become as dominant in the server market as the Pentium is among personal computers. But Intel’s Xeon processor, which runs the same software as Pentium machines, still accounts for the majority of server shipments, and Intel in recent years has positioned Itanium only as a replacement for competitors’ high-end chips, such as Sun Microsystems’ UltraSparc and IBM’s Power. Despite the admission, Talwalkar also said Itanium is strong and meeting its long-term goals.
Source: c|net
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