Intel is planning to continue development and will boost Itanium chip to market Xeon server level. Intel confirmed their intention to continue to develop processors (CPUs) Itanium but stated that the intention is to increase the Xeon server chip market share on the server market yield but also to target Itanium processor. In April 2010, Intel Corporation has shipped the Xeon 7500 processor servers Microsoft also announced the intention to continue to support Windows Server systems running Itanium processors made for the future of this increasingly difficult to determine.

This is the most powerful processors shipped by Intel's enterprise server line. At Intel, we shall propose to represent the x 86 alternatives as Power7 processors from IBM and Oracle / Sun SPARC RISC architecture. Shannon Poulin, director of marketing for Intel's Xeon platform those companies wants Nehalem-EX proposed in the new market segments. "We are not prepared for the Xeon limited release," Poulin said.
But analysts say the continued decline of the Itanium market demand could encourage the Xeon because business users will switch to servers running the x86 microprocessor architecture, although this requires not only a year. Microsoft announced the intention to in 2018, Windows Server 2008 R2, the latest version of Windows Server will terminate support for Itanium systems running.

Currently, Intel Itanium is trying to re-orient to use other features prominently in the crowd to its x86 architecture processors. Rob Shiveli, director of platform marketing is especially important to Intel's Itanium towards the running HP-UX machine and separate segments of the market that Unix and mainframe operating systems are other rankings work. On the other hand, the Xeon processor will be proposed for these important server running Windows, Linux and Solaris. Intel to invest in developing new generations of Itanium as the company said that it will be shipped every two years. Recently, Intel Itanium proposed models are expected to develop under the code name Tukwila, Poulson and then will be more than a Kittson.

Analysts believe that Intel is the basis for further development of Itanium. Natan Brookvood, principal analyst of Insight 64, said of Intel's customers range is enhanced Itanium, HP is the largest since HP is using this chip for Integrity server line highly stable operation. HP Intel has agreed to long-term development of Itanium and the Company will implement a series of obligations. HP has many difficulties when moving from PA-RISC architecture and its completely capable company is not ready to give up architecture for the benefit of the x86.