Deneb Samples are almost out

[Shintai]

BTW in 2 years from now, what kind of role will Itanium have in the market place?

Still a billion$ business. Itanium tho will get alot cheaper platform. Since with QPI. You could mix an Itanium with say a X58 chipset.

And I think the goal is to make Xeons and Itaniums dropin compatible.

But gonna be fun to see the first 32nm Itanium (3?), Since they skip 45nm.

On Deneb, is there any word on pricing yet? What about RD890? I haven't heard anything of that chip set for a while and it even seems to be delayed to halfway through 2009

Same as current K10s I say. RD890 have never been 2008 as far as I know.