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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by lisper on Sunday February 03, 2019 @01:21AM (#19068155)
> Itanium being discontinued further reduces mainstream CPUs to the most boring, safe designs possible

IMHO, as someone who cares about security, that's not necessarily a bad thing. (I do lament the passing of tagged architectures, but that ship sailed a long, long time ago.)

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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by pjmlp on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:05AM (#19068948)
That ship is back, although in smaller size, because tagged memory is the only way to actually tame C.

Solaris with SPARC ADI, Android with the upcoming ARM Memory Extensions are two examples of it.

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