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==Criticism==
The Itanium processor (first edition) sold poorly, and were criticised as slow and expensive by those that did not understand the value of paralellism in a microprocessor. This first edition chip is often referred to as "[[Itanic]]".
The Itanium 2 processor (second edition) sold very well and quickly rose to the top of the Top 500 most powerful computers on the planet earth, where it continues to vie with the Power line of processors (IBM) and other parallel challenged processors by companies such as AMD
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