Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead

Enlarge (credit: Intel) Remember Itanium? Intel’s first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new 9700-series Itanium CPUs based on the “Kittson” architecture, and the chips are the last new Itanium processors that the company plans to ship. An Intel spokesperson confirmed to […]