Intel finally quits making their Itanium server chips TechSpot

While the current Itanium 9700 series offers some solid server-focused features like four-way hyperthreading and strong reliability and scalability, their value is simply atrocious. The flagship 8-core, for example, costs just as much as Intel’s 24-core Xeons while being a full gigahertz slower.





from TechSpot http://bit.ly/2Bf5kJa