What Does Itanic Mean?
“Itanic” is an IT slang term for an Intel processor, or a set of processors, officially known as Itanium. Released in 2001, the first Itanium chip was not popular and was only made briefly. Successive editions had varying appeal within the industry.
Techopedia Explains Itanic
Prior to the advent of the Itanium processor, Intel had been experimenting with Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) and its processing limits. After its release, engineers found that Itanium was not a lot better than other RISC or CISC computing systems. Intel sold only a few thousand of these processors on the market. A successor, Itanium 2, came out in 2002 and was mostly implemented on enterprise servers.
