Intel's Itanium and CPU Architecture

What was the primary goal of Intel's Itanium architecture?

• To reduce manufacturing costs

• To improve battery life

• To replace x86 architecture

• To enhance graphics processing

What was a major technical challenge faced by Itanium CPUs?

• Inability to support 32-bit applications

• Incompatibility with Windows operating systems

• Difficulty in software-based instruction scheduling

• Lack of support for multi-core processing

Which competitor's product posed a significant challenge to Itanium's success?

• Qualcomm's Snapdragon

• AMD's Opteron

• NVIDIA's Tegra

• ARM's Cortex

What architecture did Intel focus on after Itanium's decline?

• ARM architecture

• RISC architecture

• x86-64 architecture

• SPARC architecture

What was the outcome for Itanium in Intel's product lineup?

• It was relegated to niche markets

• It was integrated into mobile devices

• It was discontinued immediately after launch

• It became the primary architecture for all Intel CPUs