Comment: Risc faces slow march to oblivion

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Intel's Itanium chip will come to dominate the enterprise, so Risc systems are doomed. But their demise will take longer than many industry observers think, says Martin Banks

Experience shows us that new technologies turn into usable products much more slowly than vendors predict. So it is with Intel's Itanium 2 processor. Nearly all the server vendors are jumping aboar...

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