Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
by zargon on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:17PM
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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.
Re:Intel releases the last Itanium chip, the 9700
by bogomipz on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:49PM
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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.
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.