Technology Shifts and the Need For Itanium Processor Power
From a hardware point of view, the “high growth” market for Intel architecture machines has shifted from personal computers to network servers. This can be accomplished, if not in the most efficient manner, by having the machine “tricked out” with extra memory and a load of extra disk drives. However, the growth of the Internet has led to an exponential increase in the demands placed on these kinds of servers.
No matter how extensive the upgrades, the personal computing processors—top of the line Pentiums and their clone offshoots—are simply not enough. The microprocessor 'engines' that were originally designed to drive workstations remain too unscalable to effectively handle today's ...
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