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“山雨欲来风满楼”,用这句话形容英特尔公司即将发布的64位高端处理器——“安腾”(Itanium)最恰当不过了。本月20日发布的奔腾4就是安腾的一个前奏。虽然“安腾”处理器的发布时间一再拖延,但是英特尔公司对该产品的推广和测试工作从没有一刻的停止,而且有愈演愈烈的架势。英特尔公司称“安腾”处理器不仅仅是一个处理器,而是一揽子高端计算的解决方案的整体发布。也许英特尔的这个发展策略是对的,一方面可以尽量摆脱 AMD 公司带来的威胁,寻找新的经济支柱,另一方面对于沉寂良久的高端服务器芯片市场是一颗原子弹,激活了那些生于忧患而死于安乐的提供商的动力。面对这样一个极俱冲击力的产品,原有的64位处理器厂商表现出不同的姿态,它们或者支持,或者加紧自己产品的研发,准备打一场对抗赛。64位 RISC 芯片的主要厂商和产品是惠普的 HP-PA 8X00、Sun 的 SPARC III、IBM 的 Power4和康柏的 Alpha EV67、68,以及一直追杀到高端的 AMD 的“大铁锤”系列产品。
“Rain is coming,” with this sentence to describe Intel’s forthcoming 64-bit high-end processor - “Itanium” (Itanium) the most appropriate. Pentium 4 released on the 20th of this month is a prelude to Itanium. Although the Itanium processor release time and again delay, but Intel’s promotion and testing of the product has never stopped a moment, but also intensified posture. Intel said the “Itanium” processor is more than just a processor, but a complete release of a package of high-end computing solutions. Perhaps Intel’s development strategy is right, on the one hand you can try to get rid of the threat posed by AMD, looking for new economic pillars, on the other hand for quiet long-term high-end server chip market is an atomic bomb, activate those who are born And died of the motivation of the happy provider. Faced with such a shocking product, the original 64-bit processor vendors showed a different attitude, they either support, or step up their own product development, ready to fight a match. The major vendors and products for 64-bit RISC chips are HP’s HP-PA 8X00, Sun’s SPARC III, IBM’s Power4 and Compaq’s Alpha EV67, 68, as well as the “Big Hammer” series that has been chasing down to high-end AMD .