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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by bogomipz on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:56AM (#14331559)
From the article:

>"Intel can now focus on Xeon, which was rebranded last week to account for new technologies like co-processors and faster interconnects."

I was confused by this, Xeon has been the mainstay in the high-end workstation/server for what feels like forever now. Was the limited Itanium market and development really affecting their focus that much?

I am curious if anyone knows what companies or verticals made big investments in Itanium? I imagining Intel much have some pretty big Itanium customers if it has been around this long. Maybe this answers my first question?

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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by zargon on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:17PM (#14331668)
Xeon wasn't losing focus to Itanium... that's just the author writing filler material.

The main customer of Itanium that I'm aware of is the VMS operating system. It was ported from Alpha to Itanium in the early days of Itanium and anyone dependent on VMS has been reliant on Itanium since then. HP paid Intel a few years ago not to kill Itanium in the meantime while they were porting VMS to x86.

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Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700 by bogomipz on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:49PM (#14333554)
Oh interesting, I did not know that. I have heard that the US government has a lot of VMS systems. If that's true then this alone would make sense for HP to fund Itanium to some extent.
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