AMD Opteron outsold Intel Itanium by 10X

Of course, Sun would say that, seeing as it sells Opteron servers itself. But would Gartner? It doesn't sell Opterons...

If these figures are correct, that chimes with the views of several large corporate users we met last week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) and also earlier this year at CeBIT, in the Hannover Messegelande, and at other conferences.

Neither Intel nor AMD will break out individual shipments of their respective 64-bit chips. Intel insists, and insisted at IDF last week, that the Itanium was there to compete with RISC big tin, and was a different kind of beast from its competitor's Opteron chip.

We understand from sources that Intel sold 5,000 Itanium systems during this year so far, a figure that we reckon - but we don't know - makes the Itanium successful compared to the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.

Last week we reported that Dell, and to a lesser extent IBM, is hamstrung because of the Intel Inside cooperative marketing programme, which contributes piles of cash to the vendors' bottom lines.

The Sun page is here. µ

See Also
Intel Inside holds up Dell Opteron adoption
Intel Developer Forum INQ coverage

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Austin American Statesman "The Inquirer, a British Web site that is ground zero for computer-industry gossip" [Is this good or bad? Ed.]