Timeline

Timeline

* 1989:
o HP begins investigating EPIC
* 1994:
o June: HP and Intel announce partnership
* 1995:
o 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:
o October: Compaq announces it will use IA-64
* 1997:
o June: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $38bn/yr by 2001
o October: Dell announces it will use IA-64
o December: Intel and Sun announce joint effort to port Solaris to IA-64
* 1998:
o March: SCO admits HP/SCO Unix alliance is now dead
o June: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $30bn/yr by 2001
o June: Intel announces Merced will be delayed, from second half of 1999 to first half of 2000
o September: IBM announces it will build Merced-based machines
o October: Project Monterey is formed to create a common UNIX for IA-64
* 1999:
o February: Project Trillian is formed to port Linux to IA-64
o August: IDC predicts IA-64 systems sales will reach $25bn/yr by 2002
o October: Intel Announces the Itanium name
o October: the term Itanic is first used
* 2000:
o February: Project Trillian delivers source code
o June: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $25bn/yr by 2003
o July: Sun and Intel drop Solaris-on-Itanium plans
o 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:
o June: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $15bn/yr by 2004
o June: Project Monterey dies
o July: Itanium is released
o October: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $12bn/yr by the end of 2004
o November: IBM's 320-processor Titan NOW Cluster at National Center for Supercomputing Applications is listed on the TOP500 list at position #34
o November: Compaq delays Itanium Product release due to problems with processor
o December: Gelato is formed
* 2002:
o March: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $5bn/yr by end 2004
o June:Itanium 2 is released
* 2003:
o April: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $9bn/yr by end 2007
o April: AMD releases Opteron, the first processor with x86-64 extensions
o June: Intel releases the "Madison" Itanium 2
* 2004:
o February: Intel announces it has been working on its own x86-64 implementation (which it will eventually market under the name "Intel 64")
o June: Intel releases its first processor with x86-64 extensions, a Xeon processor codenamed "Nocona"
o June: Thunder, a system at LLNL with 4096 Itanium 2 processors, is listed on the TOP500 list at position #2
o 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.
o December: Itanium system sales for 2004 reach $1.4bn
* 2005:
o January: HP ports OpenVMS to Itanium
o February: IBM server design drops Itanium support
o June: An Itanium 2 sets a record SPECfp2000 result of 2,801 in a Hitachi, Ltd. Computing blade.
o September: Itanium Solutions Alliance is formed
o September: Dell exits the Itanium business
o October: Itanium server sales reach $619M/quarter in the third quarter.
o October: Intel announces one-year delays for Montecito, Montvale, and Tukwila
* 2006:
o January: Itanium Solutions Alliance announces a $10bn collective investment in Itanium by 2010
o February: IDC predicts Itanium systems sales will reach $6.6bn/yr by 2009
o June: Intel releases the dual-core "Montecito" Itanium 2
* 2007:
o October: Intel releases the "Montvale" Itanium 2
o November: Intel renames the family back to Itanium.