Il motivo della realizzazione del pių conservativo processo a 65nm potrebbe essere questo:
http://www.tgdaily.com/networking-brief/48339-intel-itanium-outsells-amd-opteron
"The way Intel has designed the transistors is 100X stronger than the previous generation. They're resistant to cosmic rays.
Intel has double device data protection for the first time. The Quick Path Interconnect allows for "self healing" with half bandwidth QPI. You can hotplug practically everything delivering a virtual reliability environment."
non so' quanto l'abbiano sparata questa cosa, ma diciamo che hanno puntato in alto per qualche appalto militare