![]() Itanium 2 processor | |
Produced | From mid-2001 to present |
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Max. CPU clock rate | 733 MHz to 2.53 GHz |
FSB speeds | 300 MHz to 667 MHz |
Instruction set | Itanium |
Number of cores | 1, 2, 4 or 8 |
Itanium (/aɪˈteɪniəm/ eye-TAY-nee-əm) is a type of Intel microprocessor with 64-bit chip architecture (not related to the by now mainstream 64-bit CPUs made by Intel and others). Itanium processors are sometimes used today for servers. Itanium processors were originally designed by HP and Intel with Intel making producing them, and several manufacturers of systems used them; nowhere as many systems used as originally hoped for. HP still supports systems using these chips.
Intel officially announced the end of life and product discontinuance of the Itanium CPU family on January 30, 2019.[1]