Intel recently announced that the Itanium Itanium 9500 series processor will be transferred to the process of suspension of delisting. Orders will not be unsubscribed after September 28th, and will eventually cease delivery on March 5, 2021.
The name Itanium is now relatively unfamiliar. It is based on Intel's pure 64-bit architecture, IA64. It is not compatible with traditional 32-bit architectures. The concept is very advanced, but it requires the entire hardware and software ecosystem to be completely reversed.
While Intel was preparing to promote this pure 64-bit architecture, AMD proposed backward compatibility with 32-bit x86-64, which is more conducive to the industry transition. Intel eventually adopted it completely, and Itanium can only lean on large servers. The field, and the market is getting narrower and narrower.
In November 2012, Intel released the Itanium 9500 series, bringing with it the biggest changes in the history of the product: 32nm new process, 3.1 billion transistors, new microarchitecture design, and doubling the number of instruction shots per clock cycle to 12, Up to eight cores, support four-way hyper-threading, greatly increase the frequency, greatly reduce power consumption.
At that time, Itanium's trend had already been fully displayed. Although Bull (France), Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, Inspur, NEC and many other customers adopted it, they all quickly left, and only the beginning was left. HP Enterprise with Intel's IA64 architecture is still struggling.
In May 2017, Intel released the latest Itanium 9700 series, but it was the Itanium 9500 series. In addition to the top two models, the frequency was increased by 133MHz and the others were completely unchanged.
After the retirement of the Itanium 9500 series, the Itanium 9700 will become the only seedling of this family and will undoubtedly be the last stop.
Since then, the name Itan can only be seen in the history book.
