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Q: I've been reading for years that Itanium is going to get cancelled, but Intel still keeps producing new versions of it. So my question is what, specifically, is Itanium so good at that Intel keeps it around, despite the fact that Xeon keeps getting more powerful and is much cheaper than Itanium? What kinds of applications are people using Itanium for, and why can't they just switch to Xeon instead of hassling with a different architecture?
It's not for nothing that Intel's Itanium processor family is commonly called "Itanic." Predictions of the line's demise regularly crop up in the tech press, with the most recent one coming courtesy of Oracle, which declared the Itanium line dead before canceling the future development of its popular database stack for the architecture.
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