Easy one. That's 'cos the x86 market is worth gob-loads of money and has competition. The Itanic market relies on HP sales to a captive audience and nobody else makes a compatible CPU (I wonder why.....).
If Itanium sales ever get to a level where they are bread and butter rather than gravy *and* a competitor (e.g. AMD) starts producing a compatible part *and* this part gets to a state where it's taking sales off the Intel component, then and only then will the release timescales get more aggressive.
Why spend money on bleeding edge tech when your customers will buy any old shit?
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Easy one. That's 'cos the x86 market is worth gob-loads of money and has competition. The Itanic market relies on HP sales to a captive audience and nobody else makes a compatible CPU (I wonder why.....).
If Itanium sales ever get to a level where they are bread and butter rather than gravy *and* a competitor (e.g. AMD) starts producing a compatible part *and* this part gets to a state where it's taking sales off the Intel component, then and only then will the release timescales get more aggressive.
Why spend money on bleeding edge tech when your customers will buy any old shit?
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