Intel has announced that it will fulfill the final shipment of Itanium 9700 processors on July 29, 2021. The company says orders must be placed no later than January 30, 2020 (spotted by Anandtech ).

The 9500-series processors utilize the Intel Itanium Architecture (also known as the IA64 ISA), and are used in large mainframe-like systems for mission-critical applications where redundancy and ...

That Itanium is nearing the end of its life is a surprise, given that Intel just took the wraps off of its next major Itanium microarchitecture revision, codenamed Poulson, at this past ISSCC.

The Itanium 9500 series is touted as the most sophisticated Intel processor to date with a new micro-architecture design. Written by Rachel King, Contributor Nov. 8, 2012 at 8:54 a.m. PT ...

Intel hasn’t provided an Itanium roadmap ahead of Kittson. The new chip succeeds the older Itanium 9500 series code-named Poulson, which started shipping in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Today, Intel launched its last Itanium processors. ... which extended 64-bit computing to the x86 architecture. Intel didn't change course immediately, but it eventually cross-licensed AMD64.

Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers.

Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance of the current Itanium. ... contains a new architecture that processes data in 64-bit chunks, ...

In addition to discussing its more prominent architectures, Intel will present data on its upcoming 32nm Itanium processor, codenamed Poulson. The new architecture doubles the number of ...

It’s a whale of a chip. Intel is announcing today the 10th generation of its Itanium chip, which is a 64-bit microprocessor aimed at the very high end of the corporate computer market.

Intel racked up some serious karmic debt when it schemed to run AMD out of the PC processor business. Xeon now languishes in Opteron’s shadow, which strikes me as just desserts for some nasty ...

Intel has officially ceased the supply of the Itanium processor, its once much-hyped family of 64-bit processors. The company announced the discontinuation of the Itanium family in January 2019 ...