Itanium 2 and beyond were fast, but no argument that it failed. Even so I read that HP took final orders for Itanium systems this year. SPEC benchmarks fom 20

Itanium 2 and beyond were fast, but no argument that it failed. Even so I read that HP took final orders for Itanium systems this year. SPEC benchmarks fom 2003: CINT2000 Itanium 2 1.5 GHz - 1322 Xeon 3.06 GHz - 1242 Opteron 1.8 GHz - 1095 CFP2000 Itanium 2 1.5 GHz - 2119 Xeon 3.06 GHz - 1173 Opteron 1.8 GHz - 1122