RE: What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

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What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or...
\ qfpvajdy (24 Apr 2007)
. \ Nelson, David J (24 Apr 2007)
. . \ Davi (24 Apr 2007)
. . . \ Bo Ørsted Andresen (24 Apr 2007)
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. . . \ Nelson, David J (24 Apr 2007)

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Subject:	RE: What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Nelson, David J
Date:	24 Apr 2007

>
> But Xeon is Itanium's substitute... isn't?
>

Nope. Itanium and Xeon are developed in parallel. Where Xeon is based off of desktop CPU architecture (x86, AMD64, et al) the Itanium (aka Itanic due to slow uptake) is a 64bit CPU completely from scratch.

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