Japan has been on the vanguard of Itanium adoption. Power consumption is a big concern there and Montecito will be a real winner. |
SGI is using Itanium to cut the cost of designing its own chips. Intel is putting a lot of resources into developing Itanium. So instead of developing processors, we can use Itanium and put our effort into developing systems. |
There is a fairly large contingent of folks looking to deploy new systems. |