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Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.
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Diversity and choice are good things, we are always told. But in the case of processors, diversity may not be the answer.
The chipmaker adds a new chip for 2004 and moves up the launch date of an Itanium with two processors.
The co-designer of the Itanium 2 chip has formally detailed its plans for the processor.
IBM's work on the AIX 5L Unix operating system will bear fruit this year, with version 5.1 enabling systems to incorporate Power 4 chips or Intel's Itanium for the first time.
Sun Microsystems will likely adopt the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices as it extends into new branches of the server market.
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