Section 1: A Brief History of Itanium—From Mainstream Designate to Mainframe Wannabe Section 2: Itanium's Two Front Chip War— The RISC Challengers Section 3: Itanium's Second Front— Challenges from Below Section 4: In Search of Scale Economies Section 5: Building the Itanium Systems Ecosystem Section 6: Putting Software Meat on the Itanium Ecosystem Bones Section 7: Divining Itanium's Future— Steady-State Scenarios Section 8: Can Intel Still Change the Rules?
Figure 1: Intel's 2006 Itanium Plans Figure 2: Intel's Multicore Roadmap Figure 3: IBM's Power vs. Itanium Benchmarks Figure 4: Scale-Up Processors by the Numbers Figure 5: Comparing the Scale-Up Processor Ecosystems Figure 6: Growth of the Itanium Applications Portfolio Figure 7: Steady-State Itanium Scenarios