Finally, Itanium is profitable!
Intel’s 64-bit Itanium processor never got much respect from the mainstream enterprise server buyer. A set of more established 64-bit chips based on the RISC architecture, the rapid evolution of the 32-bit x86 architecture – and then the 64-bit x86 extensions pioneered by AMD – kept the VLIW-based Itanium in a money-losing niche for ten […]