Earlier this week, Microsoft, the software giant had announced that it will put an end to Intel Itanium processors for any of its future versions of Windows Server and will use only 64-bit processors for any upcoming platform.
This development was touted as a major setback for the world’s largest chip maker, Intel, which has plans to support the Itanium architecture for at least next four years.
It is reported that Intel is planning to launch two more generations of the Itanium CPUs. At present, the company has not detailed anything officially, but channel insiders said that Intel is planning to launch a 32nm eight-core IA64 CPU (Poulson) in 2012, followed by Kittson in 2014.
Intel also said that Itanium chips used in Windows platform consist less than 6% of the current Itanium sales. Itanium chips are mainly used by the Unix servers and Microsoft moving off the bus would not spell much variations for chipzilla.
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