Posts by Dread Pirate Bob

Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line

It’s either on of, or both

1. Tax write offs

2. Costly penalties for breaking a very poorly negotiated 20 year fabrication 15 year development contract with a very large, and very substantial key vendor.

To sum up:

Intel 86's IA-64, which AMD-64 86'd in '04.