SOMEWHAT DIVERTED from my original tack because a lady from Intel Satan Clara asked one of my reporters to retract a story
I'd written, it's time to return to my original question which still awaits an answer.
Back in November 2001, or
1438 stories down the INQ line, we reported that Intel was heavily dependent on the Alpha chip.
Indeed, it used it to make Itaniums, ironically enough.
Doug Busch, the IT manager at Intel told us then that it was heavily dependent on both OpenVMS and Alpha microprocessors but that it's long term plan was to migrate to the Merced (Itanium) microprocessor.
Four years down the line, we asked Intel the other day, had it now got to the stage where it used Itaniums to make its microprocessors and run its fabs.
Because OpenVMS has now been ported to the Itanium, and that HP wag Rich Marcello reckons that the chip is the bee's bollocks, we'd be interested to know what the answer is. Intel told us it would get back to us with the answer. And so we tap our fingers patiently on the keyboard of lurv and we'll just wait a little longer.
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