Standard support for the latest release of the HP-UX UNIX operating system from Hewlett-Packard for hardware based on the PA-RISC (HP 9000) and Intel Itanium (HPE Integrity) architectures has expired. Standard support for the HP-UX 11i v3 OS branch, released in February 2007, ended for HPE Integrity servers on December 31, 2025 (for HP 9000 servers, standard support ended in 2021). Extended support for HP-UX 11i v3 will continue until December 31, 2028. Extended support for HP-UX 11i v2 (HP 9000 and Integrity) and HP-UX 11i v1 (HP 9000) ended on December 31, 2025.
Itanium processors were introduced by Intel in 2001, but the ia64 architecture failed to compete with AMD64, primarily due to AMD64's higher performance and smoother transition from 32-bit x86 processors. As a result, Intel's focus shifted to x86-64 processors, leaving Itanium as the primary focus. servers HP Integrity, which was discontinued in 2021, alongside Intel's discontinuation of Itanium chips.
Source: opennet.ru
