Intel Itanium is a CPU which very few computer users is familiar with. Even real enthusiasts often lack knowledge about Intel’s 64-bit server CPU, which really lives up to the name of high-end. The last few years Itanium has encountered more and more problems when losing support among their partners and where analysists more or less has anticipated the fall of Itanium within the nearest future. For a processor which has cost many billions to develop it hardly is any good news, but are the lights out for Intel’s hardcore CPU? That is something looked closer on in an article at Anandtech where Itanium’s history is plowed through, but also Itanium 2’s future, which might be the light at the end of the tunnel.
