For years the pundits scoffed. Waiting for Merced, as Intel's next-generation Itanium processor was code-named, was like waiting for Godot. First it was going to ship in 1998, then in 1999, then in ...

Intel says its new Itanium 2 server chip will live up to its name by providing twice the performance of the current Itanium. The company on Wednesday released test results for its prototype Itanium 2 ...

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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 ...

Remember Itanium? Intel's first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new 9700-series Itanium CPUs based on the "Kittson" ...

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 ...

Oracle on Tuesday became the latest software maker to say it will stop developing applications for Intel Itanium microprocessors, following a similar announcement by Microsoft last year and Red Hat ...

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 ...