About three years ago, Intel has decided to curtail the development of Itanium, and start moving on their place of production of processors Xeon E7. For the company's Xeon E7 in the design and manufacture is cheaper than the Itanium, which means that they could earn more. For Intel customer has prepared a story about reducing the cost of ownership on the Xeon platforms for mission-critical calculations that, in general, it is true. There remained the problem of low-x86 platforms, fault tolerance and lack of x86-compatible software-unique applications for HP-UX and OpenVMS. Programs ported gradually, but it is a long process. So while Intel Itanium forced to continue the production and, as you know, on the generation of processors approach Kittson.
As is evident from HP, HPE Integrity servers on the new Intel Itanium processors will be available for purchase by interested companies in the second half of this year. This processor, known to us codenamed Kittson. Compared with the generation Itanium Poulson processors (series 9500) news will be more productive in terms of each core. At the same time Intel is rumored to save as a technical process of production of processors (32 nm), and the processor socket, which will facilitate the modernization of the existing servers.
Company HPE, will support customers on Itanium-based systems until 2025. As between the output of Poulson and Kittson took more than four years, apparently, Kittson will be the last processor in the Itanium line, which will get more or less noticeable architectural improvements. Next update of the lineup, if it happens, it may be a simple transition to a manufacturing process with less technological norms of production.
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