Intel is committed to expanding the blade ecosystem. New market segments and broader solutions are already emerging from the Blade.org community, and Intel will continue to work closely with the consortium to create new blade solutions.

Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market.

My opinion is there's still a lot of upside for Toyota, ... They're expanding capacity, still introducing models (in market segments) where they haven't been. They've got a technological lead in (fuel efficient) hybrids. They're aggressively expanding here still.

Intel isn't the market. They're marking the futures down, but I think this is a minimal affair. Everybody already knew the tech sector is in trouble. This is nervous traders protecting themselves -- not the start of a new decline.

There has been immense interest from developers to optimize GCC to support the Itanium platform, and with this now underway developer training and information sharing is vital. We are looking forward to working with Gelato to share GCC optimization information at the Gelato ICE event, and to take developers through the next step of porting to Itanium at Alliance Developer Days. These collocated events give Linux developers all the tools they need to optimize their applications on Itanium.

This is a premium segment for early adopters of dual core.