On 2012-09-15, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2012-09-15, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From my understanding, someone correct me if I am off here, AMD sort of >> beat Intel to the 64 bit thing.
> After years and years of miserable sales, Intel finally gave up > flogging the Itanium pocessor family and abandoned the IA64 > architecture in 2011. Oops, after some research on Wikipedia, it looks like that last bit is wrong. Intel still appears to be making Itanium parts (but nobody but HP cares). Itanium is no longer supported by Microsoft, RedHat, Oracle, SAP, and various other SW vendors (including Intel). Most of the old Itanium server vendors (e.g. IBM, SGI, Dell) have also abandonded Itanium. It seems HP is still sticking with it and is, in fact, has paid Intel over half a billion USD to keep it alive -- small wonder HP is circling the drain.
