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The 64-Bit Bet: Itanium Chip Faces Slow Adoption: Page 2 of 2

While Intel devotes a lot of time and money to expanding its role in the consumer-electronics and home-networking markets, it continues to play a dominant role in business computing.
February 23, 2004

The move to 64-bit is paying off, says Larry Stein, CompUSA's senior database administrator: "There are things I simply couldn't do before, such as data mining, which is just raw processor power."

And the same may be true for Intel. "There's much more of an opportunity at the high end," says Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for research firm Insight64. "And Itanium looks ready to hit its stride."

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