It didn't turn out that way. However, Itanium 2, which is the second generation of Intel's Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture, has re-emerged as a healthy competitor in the ...

Microsoft said it is ending its development support for the Intel Itanium processor after Windows Server 2008 R2, a move which its partners said results from the low incidence of Windows users using ...

Today, Intel released its last updates to the Itanium family, the Itanium 9700 series. These new cores, codenamed Kittson, will be the last Itanium processors Intel manufacturers. Kittson is the first ...

A start-up founded by a group of ex-HP executives, including the chief architect behind Itanium, officially debuted Monday and announced plans to ship software this summer that promises to boost the ...

Ex-HP executives are behind server software maker Secure64. A start-up founded by a group of former HP executives, including the chief architect behind Itanium, officially took the wraps off itself ...

However, Itanium was designed to deal with three critical issues: long-term memory performance, integrity and server performance. These factors must all be balanced carefully for enterprise ...

Hewlett-Packard, one of the most aggressive promoters of Intel's Itanium family of processors, is ditching its line of workstations that use the chips. The decision by the Palo Alto, Calif.-based ...

If you’re scratching your head about our decision to evaluate G5 (PowerPC 970FX) and Opteron in one story, you’re not alone. This story was originally scheduled to pit Opteron against Itanium 2, but ...

Microsoft is ending its support for Intel’s Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS, according to a Microsoft blog posting Friday. “Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last ...

Perhaps the most controversial mandate to come out of the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger was the decision to pull the post-merger HP out of the CPU business. Compaq’s Alpha and HP’s PA-RISC processors ...

Intel's Itanium can't seem to get a firm toehold anywhere. The Itanium chip family, which Intel has relegated to high-end servers, has rapidly declined on the Top500 Supercomputer list. In November ...