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Eleven years and billions of dollars later, Itanium serves instead as a cautionary tale of how complex, long-term development plans can go drastically wrong in a fast-moving industry.
Despite years of marketing and product partnerships, Itanium remains a relative rarity among servers. In the third quarter of this year, 7,845 Itanium servers were sold, according to research by Gartner. That compares with 62,776 machines with Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc, 31,648 with IBM's Power, and 9,147 with HP's PA-RISC.
I'm not convinced that HP will stay with the chip either. Everything I've read about this chip says that intel allowed a technical idea to run ahead of market research, and they paid the price for it. Read the story - it's a good overview of the problem.
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