An entire era in the history of Intel processors has ended. Production of Itanium processors, which are mainly
What happened
The company accepted its last orders for Itanium processors on January 30, 2020. Intel is said to have shipped the last batch of such processors on July 29 this year.
Itanium chips are radically different from other Intel processors and competing AMD solutions. They are based on the IA-64 architecture, jointly developed by Intel and Hewlett-Packard.
They are mainly used in servers and workstations. But, despite their potential and advantages, this project is not very successful for Intel, although it has a 20-year history.
Intel invested a lot of money in developmentItanium, but a number of problems – both technical and marketing, as well as fierce competition led to the fact that the processors of this line were unable to gain a serious position in the market.
Source: techspot
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