{"id":1050,"date":"2011-09-19T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2011-09-19T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T00:41:11","slug":"how-intel-could-save-itanium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"how intel could save itanium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not news that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itanium\">Itanium<\/a> processor is <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2011\/03\/24\/oracle-discontinuing-itanium-support\/\">doomed<\/a> in its current incarnations. Microsoft has dropped support, as has Red Hat &#8211; meaning only HP supports it with an active platform in the US (with HPUX).<\/p>\n<p>The Itanim <em>should<\/em> have been Intel&#8217;s chance to totally walk away with the processor market &#8211; but they blew it by totally breaking x86 compatibility, and not in a good way: their bungle allowed AMD to develop the x86-64 extensions that are now ubiquitous &#8211; even on Intel&#8217;s own processors (though they call them EMD64).<\/p>\n<p>With the multi-core industry in full swing, Intel has a chance to make the Itanium relevant once again &#8211; package it <em>along side<\/em> x86-64 cores in a new CPU, <em>a la<\/em> IBM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cell_%28microprocessor%29\">Cell<\/a> processor.<\/p>\n<p>With Microsoft now looking to branch Windows onto <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARM_architecture#Windows\">ARM<\/a> with Windows 8, the x86 architecture is no longer the only [major] game in town.<\/p>\n<p>If Intel were to co-package the Itanium and x86 cores on one chip, or at least in one package, they could start to reap the benefits of both worlds &#8211; keep the high-end, &#8220;mission critical&#8221; market they have that lives on HPUX (though &#8220;mission critical&#8221; and &#8220;HPUX&#8221; don&#8217;t jive in my head), and bring into that realm the x86 world.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not news that the Itanium processor is doomed in its current incarnations. Microsoft has dropped support, as has Red Hat &#8211; meaning only HP supports it with an active platform in the US (with HPUX). The Itanim should have been Intel&#8217;s chance to totally walk away with the processor market &#8211; but they blew &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=1050\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">how intel could save itanium<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,22,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideas","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}