Technology@Intel · An update on Intel Itanium processors

http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2007/06/i_get_asked_regularly_about.html: "I get asked about why not just focus on Xeon? Xeon is well addressing the needs of the $28B volume server market. This is the fastest growing portion of the server market. However, the mainframe and risc replacement market remains about the same size at $28B and is growing, albeit more slowly than the volume server marketing. Itanium plays a crucial role in the our pursuit of this market — with it’s best in class reliability and scalable performance. It competes head to head with Power and SPARC, creating an open system alternative to these other proprietary high end architectures. "