ComputerWorld interview Steve Ballmer
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Part 1 of the interview, which follows here, focuses on the memo. In Part 2, which will run on Monday, Ballmer shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics, including the merger of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Compaq Computer Corp. and his desire not to limit his company's potential for expansion into new business areas." ~ ComputerWorld
The chipmaker is in the midst of a product transition to 64-bit processors, which deliver better transactional performance through a combination of more complex computational ability, the ability to store a larger amount of data near the CPU, and the ability to address much more memory than 32-bit parts. Early versions of IBM DB2 Universal Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 9i, and other software are available on Itanium, the second product in Intel's 64-bit line. Customers, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Daimler Chrysler, and Reuters, are testing Itanium 2 systems, Intel says.
But 32-bit chips continue to supply the bulk of Intel's sales. Improvements in the Xeon chip are also on tap: It's expected to run faster than 3 GHz next year, compared with a top clock speed today of 2.4 GHz.