Intel’s 64-bit Itanium CPUs are finally dead

Hurray!

I don't usually enjoy seeing a technology die, but I'll make an exception in this case. Intel's forcing of Itanium down the throats of HP and SGI pretty much killed off a lot of diversity in the higher-end RISC CPU marketplace. HP killed Alpha and PA-RISC, SGI killed MIPS, etc, in favor of Itanium. Being a huge DEC Alpha fan, I still resent the Itanium for its part in killing Alpha & am very happy to see it die.