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Formally, Intel’s Itanium chips and their IA-64 structure died again in 2021, when the corporate shipped its final processors. However failed know-how usually dies one million little deaths. To call only a few: Itanium additionally died in 2013, when Intel successfully determined to cease enhancing it; in 2017, when the final new Itanium CPUs shipped; in 2020, when the final Itanium-compatible model of Home windows Server stopped getting updates; and in 2003, when AMD launched a 64-bit processor lineup that did not break compatibility with present 32-bit x86 working techniques and functions.
Itanium is dying one other dying within the subsequent model of the Linux kernel. In keeping with Phoronix, all code associated to Itanium help is being faraway from the kernel within the upcoming 6.7 launch after a number of months of deliberation. Linus Torvalds eliminated some 65,219 traces of Itanium-supporting code in a commit earlier this week, giving the structure a “well-earned retirement as deliberate.”
The primary Itanium processors have been launched in mid-2001, the results of years of collaboration between Intel and HP. The preliminary designs have been made for servers, the place their parallelized design would (theoretically) have the ability to velocity issues up by executing a number of directions concurrently. From there, the instruction set would finally migrate into lower-end servers after which to shopper PCs.
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