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This is a proposed replacement for Itanium, Itanium 2, and IA-64, to be named Itanium.

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Help with futures?

This replacement article amounts to a damning condemnation of the hype in our existing articles. This was not my intention in the least, but I cannot find anything positive to say that is not speculative.

However, there is still hope for Itanium. In particular:

• Montecito has fairly good SPEC numbers by comparison to Xeon and Opteron, even though Montecito is still on a 90nm process while the other two are on more modern processes
• Tukwila will be able to use commodity chipsets, thus permitting ISVs to build Itanium systems without investing huge amounts of money to develop a chipset.
• The original theoretical advantages of EPIC are finally realizable: the inherent codespace inefficiencies are much less relevant (cache is proportionately cheap) and the simplicity of EPIC permits a much smaller processor core to do more work. With multi-core dies, this means you can have more Itanium cores in the same space.

So, the question is: how can we add this information to the article without violating WP:OR?-Arch dude 00:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Unisys MCP and OS2200?

Are these environments supported on Itanium? Unisys systems have a mix of processors, and MCP and OS2200 are supported on the Xeons, for sure. Are they also supproted on the Itaniums? if so, are they supported natively, or by instruction simulation? -Arch dude 01:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)