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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • July 18, 2006
    An article by Stephen Shankland about the improvements in the newest Itanium chips, including lower power consumption:

    ``Initial Itanium models were late, slow and burdened by software incompatibility with widely used x86 chips such as Intel's Pentium. Intel retrenched, gearing Itanium to compete with Sun Microsystems' Sparc and IBM's Power in `big iron' high-end servers. With Montecito, Intel says its troubles are a thing of the past.

    ```We've gone through that hard, painful maturation process of a new architecture,' said Pat Gelsinger, general manger of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. `This thing is gaining momentum.'''

    Full story at News.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1010-6095491.html

    The Itanium chip market has been reduced in recent years so that the chip is almost exclusively used in big iron systems costing (and sometimes weighing) as much as a house.

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