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Meegotanium!

This is a very silly alternate timeline I wrote down at one point. I was trying to think of a (semi-)plausible route to the survival of both Itanium and the Nokia/Intel MeeGo OS.

6 Nov 2009

Tukwila launches at 1.86GHz base / 2.00GHz boost

5 Aug 2010

SGI introduces Altix UVI - an Itanium UV variant supporting 512 Tukwila sockets

21 Sept 2010

Mary McDowell replaces Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo as CEO of Nokia

10 Nov 2010

RHEL 6 is released for x86, PPC, z, and IPF

4 Dec 2010

New Nokia strategy announced: fully common touch APIs and UI between Symbian and Meego, transition to Meego by end of 2013, eventual upgrade to Meego for all Symbian smartphones launched after 1 Jan 2011

22 March 2011

Microsoft announces "pivot to business users" for Windows Phone after sluggish early sales

29 March 2011

Samsung announces Bada development will be terminated and enters strategic commitment to Meego alliance

8 May 2011

First Windows 8 UI preview

26 May 2011

Xeon/Itanium socket compatibility formally announced, starting in Kittson. New roadmap includes new Keenesburg Itanium processor succeeding Kittson.

5 June 2011

Huawei announces FusionFrame SU32 and SU8, scale-up Itanium servers running HP-UX. Inspur concurrently announces TianSuo Itanium servers running K-UX (Linux)

29 Aug 2011

After lackluster SPARC T3 sales, Oracle enters strategic alliance with HP against IBM. SPARC M5 and M6 scale-up programs are cancelled.

15 Sept 2011

Windows Dev Day at Microsoft; Universal Binaries for x86, ARM32, ARM64, and Itanium announced, alongside new Win8 APIs

5 Oct 2011

Nokia N9, E9, and N950 launch running Harmattan. Harmattan APIs are transferred to the aegis of the Meego foundation.

16 Dec 2011

First Windows Server 2012 preview released for x86 and Itanium

14 Jan 2012

Knights Corner accelerator cards publicly demonstrated with both Xeon and Itanium (Poulson engineering sample) compute nodes at HPC event featuring SGI, HP, and Cray

25 March 2012

Poulson released at 2.93GHz base, 3.2GHz boost; systems launched by HP, SGI, Inspur, Huawei, Supermicro, and Bull

2 May 2012

Windows Phone 8 launches with OEM support from HTC and Samsung

7 June 2012

Microsoft enters a definitive agreement to buy HTC for US$3.1bn

19 June 2012

Nokia launches first upstream Meego (non-Harmattan) phone, the N10

1 Aug 2012

Windows 8 released for x86 and 32-bit ARM; both versions are effectively identical. Windows Server 2012 launches for x86 and Itanium on the same day, and scalability to 2048 threads is demonstrated on an Altix UVI.

4 Sept 2012

Nokia's last Symbian phone, the Pureview 1020, launches

15 Dec 2012

Microsoft completes acquisition of HTC

19 Dec 2012

Samsung announces a withdrawal from the Windows Phone market, citing "shifts in the competitiveness of Windows Phone for third-party manufacturers"

15 Jan 2013

Samsung Orion, the first Samsung Meego smartphone, launches

9 Apr 2013

Office Universal announced, including Itanium binaries

5 June 2013

Intel Datacenter Day. Knights Corner officially available. Kittson-22 demonstrated in an identical server to Ivy Bridge EX. Dell and Fujitsu announce commitment to offer Kittson servers.

17 June 2013

Itanium returns to the Top500; Omen, a JPL UVI system with 10 256-socket Poulson nodes equipped with Knights Corner accelerators, enters the list at #119.

4 Oct 2013

Meego passes 5% volume share of smartphone sales

15 Dec 2013

Kittson launches on new Brickland platform, with Ivy-EX announced to share the same platform and launch in the first quarter. Kittson's top SKU, the 9790, has 16 cores @ 2.93GHz, and 72MB LLC. PSX, the Parallel SIMD Extensions, are introduced. PowerEdge R970 is Dell's first inhouse-developed Itanium product. HP announces licensing of HP-UX to other IPF vendors; Dell offers it, Fujitsu does not.