Intel finally kills Itanium
 

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After 20 years of being a loud resounding yawn in the computer world, Intel has finally put its Itanium product to sleep.

The company stopped shipping its Itanium processors last week after keeping it going for another decade and a half, until it was put on the chopping block in 2019.

For those of us with long memories, Itanium was the red-haired offspring of an unusual tryst between Intel and the maker of expensive printer ink HP in the 1990s. At the time it sort of made sense. The range of ISAs in use was far more diverse than the x86. The IA-64 architecture was designed to push forward into the realms of then-exotic 64-bit computing, as well as replace the proprietary solutions in use by many individual companies.

However, it was quickly dubbed "Itanic" for cash being spent on it, its ambition, and its eventual results. Itanium's promise ended up sunk on an iceburg of legacy 32-bit support and difficulties in working with the architecture for writing and maintaining software.

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