It turns out, Dr. Schmidt told the audience, that what matters most to the computer designers at Google is not speed but power
Interesting article for both the lessons being learned by Intel/HP nd the direction indicated by Google. Having spent some time in large colocation centers, I can see why power consumption and its associated costs would be an issue.
So while Intel publicly carries the Itanium standard, it also has a hedge bet in Yamhill to counter AMD’s transitional 32 -> 64 bit chips.