Here's an interesting take on the Itanium's "success" over at Mercury News.
In its biggest strategic mistake in a decade, Intel has spent an estimated $2 billion creating a high-speed computer chip, the Itanium, that most customers don't want and don't need.
Once intended to help the Santa Clara chip giant extend its dominance from personal computers to corporate computing, the Itanium has been such a flop that many industry insiders call it the ``Itanic.''
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