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Itanic
n. The Intel Itanium, so called in reference to the legendary disaster that
was the Titanic. This term bubbled up in several places on the Internet in
1999 when it was beginning to become clear that the Itanium was turning into
the most expensive and protracted flop in the history of the semiconductor
industry.