The Intel Developer Forum: Where In The World Is Itanium?

"Virtually nowhere," is the answer, if executives’ keynotes are indicative of the product line’s overall status. Check out the presentations and transcripts on Intel’s press website. Zero mentions in Paul Otellini’s keynote. One momentarily-mentioned on-stage ‘Montvale’-based hardware example, along with three other brief allusions in Pat Gelsinger’s keynote…ironically in all cases in the context of a broadening of industry support beyond Itanium to Xeon.

Intel PR will probably put on a brave face in their response to this post, claiming "all’s well with Itanium" and "there’s only a limited amount of per-speech time; you can’t expect an executive to cover everything." But c’mon…nothing more than three slight asides, even within Gelsinger’s enterprise pitch?

I smell death. Or, if you prefer, I see dead processors.