Intel, in a small online update to its Kittson Itanium processor roadmap dated January ... saw shipments fall 15.5 percent while revenue fell 2 percent, Oracle saw shipments fall 45.3 percent ...

Oracle said it reached the decision to discontinue development on Itanium after “multiple conversations” with Intel senior management. "Intel management made it clear that their ...

A year later, Intel added dual cores to its Itanium line. In the late 2000s, CPUs with two or more cores gained momentum not only in servers, but in desktop and laptop computers as well.