Thus, according to the latest rumors, the next generation Itanium - Kittson, which is expected in the current year will not be translated into the 22-nm process technology, and will remain at 32-nm, and are folded as work on unification RISC / UNIX and x86-compatible platforms.
Official press release reported that the system Superdome and NonStop powerful clusters and fault-tolerant systems are switching to Intel Xeon processors instead of Intel Itanium. Deliveries Superdome X has already begun. NonStop X system on Xeon will be available in March next year.
Performance x86-based version of Superdome and NonStop far surpass all relevant today x86-based server systems. Thanks to the a new system chipset HP Orion-2, which allows you to create a 16-processor configurations models class Intel Xeon Ivy Bridge EX.