[drivebycomment]

It's not a shame. IA64 did more harm than good for the humanity and the computing industry. It was a dead-end architecture that should have died sooner than it did. Hubris and inertia kept it going much longer than it should have, and delayed so much of other progress. I would say good riddance.

[demondemidi]

Itanium succeeded in one area: giving armchair “experts” a chance to sound smart on forums like this.