Editing Itanium (section)

== Market share ==
Compared to its [[Xeon]] family of server processors, Itanium was never a high-volume product for Intel. Intel does not release production numbers, but one industry analyst estimated that the production rate was 200,000 processors per year in 2007.<ref>{{cite web
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According to [[Gartner Inc.]], the total number of Itanium servers (not processors) sold by all vendors in 2007, was about 55,000 (It is unclear whether clustered servers counted as a single server or not.). This compares with 417,000 RISC servers (spread across all RISC vendors) and 8.4 million x86 servers. [[International Data Corporation|IDC]] reports that a total of 184,000 Itanium-based systems were sold from 2001 through 2007. For the combined POWER/SPARC/Itanium systems market, IDC reports that POWER captured 42% of revenue and SPARC captured 32%, while Itanium-based system revenue reached 26% in the second quarter of 2008.<ref>[[International Data Corporation|IDC]] World Wide Server Tracker, Q2'08</ref>
According to an IDC analyst, in 2007, HP accounted for perhaps 80% of Itanium systems revenue.<ref name="CW1"/>
According to Gartner, in 2008, HP accounted for 95% of Itanium sales.<ref name="vance late"/> HP's Itanium system sales were at an annual rate of $4.4Bn at the end of 2008, and declined to $3.5Bn by the end of 2009,<ref name="Gartner 2009-q4">{{cite news
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compared to a 35% decline in UNIX system revenue for Sun and an 11% drop for IBM, with an x86-64 server revenue increase of 14% during this period.

In December 2012, IDC released a research report stating that Itanium server shipments would remain flat through 2016, with annual shipment of 26,000 systems (a decline of over 50% compared to shipments in 2008).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.pcworld.com/article/2028587/intel-shifts-gears-on-itanium-raising-questions-about-the-server-chips-future.html| title = Intel shifts gears on Itanium, raising questions about the server chip's future| access-date = 2013-08-04| archive-date = 2013-06-15| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130615180648/http://www.pcworld.com/article/2028587/intel-shifts-gears-on-itanium-raising-questions-about-the-server-chips-future.html| url-status = live}}</ref>