Hammer on a hiding to nothing, say Gartner bootboys

GARTNER HAS WADED INTO AMD again, this time writing off Hammer's chances when faced with the unsinkable might of Intel's IA-64 architecture.

Gartner, which as we know, feeds of the Intel dollar, wheeled out a couple of their analysts, George Weiss and John Enck at the Gartner Symposium and Expo in Florida, to paint a picture of a distributed processing model in which there would be no place for a hybrid 32-64-bit architecture a la Operton (Hammer).

According to a Tech Update piece, the pair claimed there a mighty enthusiasm deficit amongst both vendors and potential customers for the AMD wunderkind.

Gartner has hammered AMD before, having used the very same pages to urge customers to ignore some AMD offerings from HP, implying they were sub-standard.

According to the latest piece, which was brought to our attention by AMDZone, Intel's own 32/64-bit hybrid the really, really non-existent Yamhill, is unlikely to see any daylight precisely because it would give some legitimacy to the whole 32/64-bit idea. The suggestion is that Intel would do better to write the whole thing off as a non-starter in the first place. Better, indeed, to plough on with a project with more foresight like the Intelgraph Itanic.

Interestingly, the Gartner guys say they've spoken to application developers who say they have tested the processor Intel's Lou Burns denies exists.

Opteron, says Spliff Davis writer David Berlind "is going to be a dud". µ

See also:
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Intel burns AMD-clone Yamhill idea
Intel's Yamhill still not a lost cause?
Intel's AMD X86-64 clone, doggone it
Intel will can Itanic if boy Hammer does too well
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