itanium is aimed at the enterprise server and high-performance computing (hpc) markets. other enterprise- and hpc-focused processor lines include oracle corporation's sparc m7, fujitsu's sparc64 x+ and ibm's power8. measured by quantity sold, itanium's most serious competition comes from x86-64 processors including intel's own xeon line and amd's opteron line. since 2009, most servers were being shipped with x86-64 processors.