Intel Itanium - Final call for doomed server CPU line

guest · Feb 1, 2019

Intel Itanium - Final call for doomed server CPU line
Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line
Chipzilla sets final date for the sinking of the Itanic
February 1, 2019
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/01/intel_kills_itanium_again/

In a notice [PDF] sent out to vendors earlier this week, Intel said that the Itanium 9700 series would take its final order on January 30 of 2020 with the final shipment date to take place on July 29, 2021.

"Market demand for the products... have shifted to other Intel products," Chipzilla said, putting in an early contender for understatement of the year. "The products identified in this notification will be discontinued and unavailable for additional orders after the Last Product Discontinuance Order Date."

The notice will apply to the Itanium 9720, 9740, 9750, 9760 models as well as the Intel C112 and C114 Scalable Memory Buffer. We understand those are the last of the Itanium chips available, launched in 2017 as four and eight-core parts, meaning by Fall 2021, it's all over for the doomed family.
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Notice (PDF): https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/02/01/pcn116733-00.pdf

guest · Aug 2, 2021

Intel's Itanium is finally dead
The Itanic sunken by the x86 juggernaut
August 1, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/90622-intel-itanium-finally-dead.html

Looking back: After 20 years of failing to make a mark on the wider computing world, Intel finally stopped shipping its Itanium processors this past Thursday. While the company shifted its focus back to the more familiar x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) back in 2004, it kept Itanium going for another decade and a half, until it was put on the chopping block in 2019.

The rest is history -- ol' reliable x86-64 remains the ISA of choice to this day, only challenged by Arm, and ended up substantially outpacing its Itanium cousin handily in both core counts and clock speeds. Even so, Intel continued to work on Itanium over the years, until the last generation was announced in 2017.
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That has finally come to a conclusion this week when the last Itanium silicon shipped. But if you're an extremely brave enterprise user with a very specific platform from two decades ago, The Register seems to have spotted a whole load of Itanium parts on the second-hand market. Go wild.
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