Basically, no one ever used hardware-based IA-32 execution, so better to use the silicon for something else. Of course, basically no one uses software-based emulation either, but at least that doesn’t cost chip real estate.

It is a question of the devil you know.

I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they’re struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.

Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.

This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel’s roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.

The potential here is a lot more efficient use of hardware, better centralized management, and potentially more flexibility with users in that they’re not tied to a particular desktop device. I don’t believe there’s a...

Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.

Obviously, [Virtual Iron] is a startup in a space where a lot of people are playing. I’m not about to predict that they’re going to take the market by storm. On the other hand, they...

Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.

It’s not like Dell had been making investments in Itanium and suddenly decided it wasn’t going to do that and pull back its support. It had a relatively older product it wasn’t promoting at all,...

[By the middle of next year,] we are going to be in a situation where Intel will have erased some of the functional gaps that they have had with AMD, … By erasing the gap,...

A fast chip got faster. This certainly helps to cement their strong current position.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today.

In the sense of having this ongoing awareness of and feedback mechanism, it does mirror certain elements of open source development. If not openness of code and standards, there is greater visibility into what’s going...

People have tried a lot of special purpose processing devices over the years and, with the exceptions of graphics units and arguably floating point units, general purpose processors have always won out in the end.