News - Intel's Itanium finally turns a profit

[HEXUS]

After 10 difficult years and over $10 billion in investments, it seems Intel's server chip is finally making some money.

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[aidanjt]

So did they use air balloons or what?

[directhex]

SGI are still about, and still shipping Itanic... although their current cluster offering and next-gen NUMA system is Xeon-based

[amdavies]

Is that profitable in that they've clawed the development costs back ($10+ billion) or profitable in that they now actually make money on each unit sold ?

[aidanjt]

Both. They've recovered the investment capital, and now they can make a more reasonable profit on the chips while selling them cheaper. It'll still always be the biggest flop in Intel's history.