Intel Itanium

History of creation

Itanium is the microprocessor with architecture of IA-64 developed jointly by Intel and Hewlett-Packard companies. For the first time it was provided on May 29, 2001. Production Itanium is stopped in July, 2002 along with an exit of Itanium 2. In November, 2007 Intel renamed a series of Itanium 2 processors back into Itanium.

Conflict with Oracle

The Oracleopyat corporation [[Oracle|]] confuses the issue in the server market: earlier the company received sharp criticism for the solution to stop developments for Intel Itanium based on which HP servers work. Now Oracle stated that Inteli Nrsgovorilis against it and want to prolong secretly life to Itanium for a decade.

Hewlett-Packard has the confidential arrangement with Intel on continuation of production of Itanium processors so HP can continue to earn from the clients whose hardware base is made by servers on these processors and to interfere with their transition to Sun/Oracle products. Told Oracle in the claim which is filed a lawsuit by the USA at the end of the last week it.

As told Oracle, in the market nobody knows about this secret arrangement, and officially Intel "buried" Itanium still a year ago. Nevertheless, HP estimates such activity from Oracle as the method to use "the uncertainty which developed in the market", in own favor.

When it became known of the termination of support and development of Itanium, HP made the statement that this solution – an internal affair of Intel, its choice based on simple calculations and need to invest in those processors which have a future. Also did not fail to remind Oracle in the claim submitted to the Supreme court of the State of California on the district Santa Clara of it.

The public and abridged version of this claim is placed in one of the blogs The Wall Street Journal. Intel already stated that it is not the party in this claim and therefore has no comments concerning the events. "The Intel corporation does not comment on commercial agreements which we as can have, not have with our clients", said in the document, widespread Intel by e-mail.

Oracle also claims that the arrangement between HP and Intel keeps unknown to the market, and its essence consists that Itanium will be supported not an extent of two next generations of life of microprocessors yet.

Believes in Oracle that this "collusion" deprives of it legal profit on sale of the Sun servers: clients "are forced" to use the closed ecosystem from the operating system of HP and servers on Itanium. Let's remind that Oracle finally closed the transaction on purchase of SUN Microsystems last year.

Meanwhile, for HP also "did not rust", and in June, 2011 she submitted a claim against Oracle because of the decision of corporation on the termination of the developments of software for Itanium which are used in hi-end HP servers. HP considers that this Oracle violated "obligations in law" in relation to 140 thousand to clients of such systems.

Then Oracle said that it was deceived by HP in the agreement of September, 2010, having continued Itanium support even despite plans of Intel concerning this platform. HP effects of this step were well-known, including from Oracle, the last noted then.

According to Oracle, "conspirators" are going to prolong life to Itanium in the market at least until the end of this decade. "The fact remains: the solution of Oracle on the termination of developments for Itanium was purposeful action for destruction of the competition in the market and promotions of products of Sun", - parried HP.

Intel curtails Itanium development

The Itanium processor model, the known Kittson code-named, will be manufactured on the same 32-nanometer technology process, as the present model. Besides, the new model will not be as it was planned, is compatible on the connector to processors of Xeon. Kittson processors will be installed in the same connectors, as present Itanium 9300 and 9500.

The analyst of Insight64 company believes that review of development plans for Itanium can testify to a gradual failure of Intel from production of these processors. Now they are used only in the Integrity servers of Hewlett-Packard company, but both companies repeatedly stated that they will continue to work with Itanium.

The analyst of Gartner does not exclude in the future transition to new technology process, but serious updating of microarchitecture of Itanium will not be any more, he considers. Though Oracle by a court decision should continue development of programs for Itanium, many clients already made the decision on transition to other hardware platform as it is easier to replace it, than a management system for the database. HP claims that actions of Intel will not influence plans for release of servers of the Integrity family in any way, on a customer support.