IBM is dropping Itanium support
Citing tepid market demand, the world's largest server seller has for the time being ceased development of an electronics package called a chipset that's at the heart of Big Blue's Itanium servers.
http://news.com.com/IBM+server+design+drops+Itanium+support/2100-1006_3-5589603.html?tag=nefd.lede
Yeah, I know that IBM has the Power family of RISC processors. However, I think that this is significant that a company like IBM is stating that they don't see a marketplace for Itanium, yet they are designing their new chipsets to to work with x64.