Itanium - Timeline

Timeline

  • 1989:
    • HP begins investigating EPIC
  • 1994:
    • June: HP and Intel announce partnership
  • 1995:
    • September: HP, Novell, and SCO announce plans for a "high volume UNIX operating system" to deliver "64-bit networked computing on the HP/Intel architecture"
  • 1996:
    • October: Compaq announces it will use IA-64
  • 1997:
    • June: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $38bn/yr by 2001
    • October: Dell announces it will use IA-64
    • December: Intel and Sun announce joint effort to port Solaris to IA-64
  • 1998:
    • March: SCO admits HP/SCO Unix alliance is now dead
    • June: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $30bn/yr by 2001
    • June: Intel announces Merced will be delayed, from second half of 1999 to first half of 2000
    • September: IBM announces it will build Merced-based machines
    • October: Project Monterey is formed to create a common UNIX for IA-64
  • 1999:
    • February: Project Trillian is formed to port Linux to IA-64
    • August: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $25bn/yr by 2002
    • October: Intel announces the Itanium name
    • October: the term Itanic is first used in The Register
  • 2000:
    • February: Project Trillian delivers source code
    • June: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $25bn/yr by 2003
    • July: Sun and Intel drop Solaris-on-Itanium plans
    • August: AMD releases specification for x86-64, a set of 64-bit extensions to Intel's own x86 architecture intended to compete with IA-64. It will eventually market this under the name "AMD64"
  • 2001:
    • June: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $15bn/yr by 2004
    • June: Project Monterey dies
    • July: Itanium is released
    • October: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $12bn/yr by the end of 2004
    • November: IBM's 320-processor Titan NOW Cluster at National Center for Supercomputing Applications is listed on the TOP500 list at position #34
    • November: Compaq delays Itanium Product release due to problems with processor
    • December: Gelato is formed
  • 2002:
    • March: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $5bn/yr by end 2004
    • June: Itanium 2 is released
  • 2003:
    • April: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $9bn/yr by end 2007
    • April: AMD releases Opteron, the first processor with x86-64 extensions
    • June: Intel releases the "Madison" Itanium 2
  • 2004:
    • February: Intel announces it has been working on its own x86-64 implementation (which it will eventually market under the name "Intel 64")
    • June: Intel releases its first processor with x86-64 extensions, a Xeon processor codenamed "Nocona"
    • June: Thunder, a system at LLNL with 4096 Itanium 2 processors, is listed on the TOP500 list at position #2
    • November: Columbia, an SGI Altix 3700 with 10160 Itanium 2 processors at NASA Ames Research Center, is listed on the TOP500 list at position #2.
    • December: Itanium system sales for 2004 reach $1.4bn
  • 2005:
    • January: HP ports OpenVMS to Itanium
    • February: IBM server design drops Itanium support
    • June: An Itanium 2 sets a record SPECfp2000 result of 2,801 in a Hitachi, Ltd. Computing blade.
    • September: Itanium Solutions Alliance is formed
    • September: Dell exits the Itanium business
    • October: Itanium server sales reach $619M/quarter in the third quarter.
    • October: Intel announces one-year delays for Montecito, Montvale, and Tukwila
  • 2006:
    • January: Itanium Solutions Alliance announces a $10bn collective investment in Itanium by 2010
    • February: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $6.6bn/yr by 2009
    • June: Intel releases the dual-core "Montecito" Itanium 2 9000 series
  • 2007:
    • April: CentOS (RHEL-clone) places Itanium support on hold for the 5.0 release
    • October: Intel releases the "Montvale" Itanium 2 9100 series.
    • November: Intel renames the family from Itanium 2 back to Itanium.
  • 2009:
    • December: Red Hat announces that it is dropping support for Itanium in the next release of its enterprise OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
  • 2010:
    • February: Intel announces the "Tukwila" Itanium 9300 series.
    • April: Microsoft announces phase-out of support for Itanium.
    • October: Intel announces new releases of Intel C++ Compiler and Intel Fortran Compiler for x86/x64, while Itanium support is only available in older versions.
  • 2011:
    • March: Oracle Corporation announces that it will stop developing application software, middleware, and Oracle Linux for the Itanium.
    • March: Intel and HP reiterate their support of Itanium.
    • April: Huawei and Inspur announce that they will develop Itanium servers.
  • 2012:
    • February: Court papers were released from a case between HP and Oracle Corporation that gave insight to the fact that HP was paying Intel $690 million to keep Itanium on life support.
    • SAP discontinues support for Business Objects on Itanium. SAPPAM.
    • September: In response to a court ruling, Oracle reinstitutes support for Oracle Sofware run on Itanium Hardware.

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