Intel will collaborate with BEA to develop the WebLogic application server software on Intel processors, including the new 64bit Itanium chip. For Intel, though, it is a key part of their move into the higher-end software market, which is...
By 2007, yearly revenue from servers running Itanium processors, a 64-bit family of chips for high-end servers that typically run four or more processors, will come to approximately $4bn, according to Gartner analyst Jeff Hewitt.
NEC dented that Unix dominance with its $4.6m TX7/i9510 system using 32 of Intel's new Itanium 2 processors. The Madison models are similar to their Itanium 2 "McKinley" predecessors, but will run at a higher clock speed and incorporate more high...
Hewlett-Packard is to announce two server components that will vastly increase the power of the company's Itanium servers, bringing them to parity with the machines using processors of the company's own design.
Intel hopes Itanium will push aside IBM's Power processors and Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc processors. Hewlett-Packard has sold 90 dual-processor Itanium 2 machines to the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's largest engineering school, for use...
And turning up at number 362 is a Hewlett-Packard system with 64 of Intel's forthcoming Itanium 2 6M "Madison" processors running at 1.5GHz. Eighth place went to an HP system with 1,540 Itanium 2 processors at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.