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I think your talking about "Itanium" a processor built in partnership with HP to be introduced in their "Integrity" server line.

I beleive that the processor has been recently released.

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"I think your talking about "Itanium" a processor built in partnership with HP to be introduced in their "Integrity" server line. I beleive that the processor has been recently released."

Itanium has been out for quite a while (about 2 or 3 years?) and has gone through several revisions. It's still pretty slow on 32-bit code, but not as bad as it used to be. It's still a decent chip, otherwise, but it's getting absolutely killed by the Opterons at the low and mid ranges. For the 'Big Tin' machines (think 100 CPUs+), Itanium has its niche and Opteron isn't really a threat to it.