The Future of Itanium: Goat or Game-Changer

Table of Contents

• Section 1: A Brief History of Itanium- From Mainstream Designate to Mainframe Wannabe
• Section 2: Itanium' s Two Front Chip War- The RISC Challengers
• Section 3: Itanium' s Second Front- Challenges from Below
• Section 4: In Search of Scale Economies
• Section 5: Building the Itanium Systems Ecosystem
• Section 6: Putting Software Meat on the Itanium Ecosystem Bones
• Section 7: Divining Itanium' s Future- Steady-State Scenarios
• Section 8: Can Intel Still Change the Rules?

Figures:

• Figure 1: Intel' s 2006 Itanium Plans
• Figure 2: Intel' s Multicore Roadmap
• Figure 3: IBM' s Power vs. Itanium Benchmarks
• Figure 4: Scale-Up Processors by the Numbers
• Figure 5: Comparing the Scale-Up Processor Ecosystems
• Figure 6: Growth of the Itanium Applications Portfolio
• Figure 7: Steady-State Itanium Scenarios