Editing Itanium (section)

== Competition ==
[[File:Processor families in TOP500 supercomputers.svg|thumb|540px|[[Area chart]] showing the representation of different families of micro-<br />processors in the [[TOP500]] ranking list of [[supercomputer]]s (1993–2019)]]

Itanium was aimed at the [[enterprise server]] and [[high-performance computing]] (HPC) markets. Other enterprise- and HPC-focused processor lines include [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]]'s and [[Fujitsu]]'s [[SPARC]] processors and [[IBM]]'s [[IBM Power microprocessors|Power microprocessors]]. Measured by quantity sold, Itanium's most serious competition came from [[x86-64]] processors including [[Intel]]'s own [[Xeon]] line and [[Advanced Micro Devices|AMD]]'s [[Opteron]] line. Since 2009, most servers were being shipped with x86-64 processors.<ref name="Gartner 2009-q4"/>

In 2005, Itanium systems accounted for about 14% of HPC systems revenue, but the percentage declined as the industry shifted to x86-64 clusters for this application.<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/idc-performance-computing
 | title=Supercomputing now dominated by X86 architecture
 | access-date=September 27, 2008
 | last=Novakovic
 | first=Nebojsa
 | date= September 25, 2008
 | website=[[The Inquirer]]
 | url-status=unfit
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927080239/http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/idc-performance-computing
 | archive-date=September 27, 2008
}}</ref>

An October 2008 [[Gartner]] report on the Tukwila processor stated that "...the future roadmap for Itanium looks as strong as that of any RISC peer like Power or SPARC."<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_rss&id=770312
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214114712/http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_rss&id=770312
 | archive-date=February 14, 2009
 | url-status=dead
 | title=Preparing for Tukwila: The Next Generation of Intel's Itanium Processor Family
 | access-date=October 21, 2008
 | last=Butler
 | first=Andrew
 | date= October 3, 2008
}}</ref>