In a strange twist of fate, the depreciated Itanium IA-64 architecture is getting a new lease on life, at least sort of.

Intel is accustomed to receiving torrents of brickbats concerning its 64bit Itanium processor. The unpalatable truth for critics, however, is that this brute-force chip remains set fair to cruise ...

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Microsoft said it is ending its development support for the Intel Itanium processor after Windows Server 2008 R2, a move which its partners said results from the low incidence of Windows users ...

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 ...

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The immense complexity of this new architecture meant that the processor itself was split ... not unlike the Intel Itanium (IA-64) disaster a few decades later. Although the iAPX 432 was a bridge ...

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.