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Boo! The Intel Itanium should be gone!
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After Dell ditched Intel’s Itanium 64-bit server processor, a group of computer makers including Hewlett-Packard, Unisys, and Hitachi announced plans Monday to promote the chip, while Advanced Micro Devices unveiled its own challenger, the high-powered 64-bit Opteron chip.
The PC makers, along with others including Bull, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, NEC, and Silicon Graphics (SGI), said they’re forming the Itanium Solutions Alliance in a move to help spur development of software applications and generally push for the Itanium’s use.
The alliance and industry support should help repair some of the damage suffered to the Itanium’s image after Dell announced earlier this month it would be phasing out the use of Itanium chips in its servers and switching to the x86-based Intel Xeon architecture instead (see Dell Ditches Itanium).
“With $3 billion of Itanium servers running over 5,000 applications worldwide, Itanium solutions continue to gain acceptance for mission-critical enterprise and technical computing environments,” said Vernon Turner, general manager of the enterprise computing group at research firm IDC.
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