Chapter 5. The Itanium Adoption Curve

“Commercial customers accept new technology when it's 'proven to be proven'. High performance technical computing is the way to prove out to this market segment that it's time to move into a new world of performance.”

—from HP Presentation on Technical Computing

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Traditionally, there's been a 'cascade' effect whenever a new microprocessor architecture is introduced in the computing world. We've seen time and again that releasing a new product that promises a ...

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