Intel is to ship its new 64-bit Itanium chip at a lower processor speed than expected, according to press reports. Intel said the majority of its new chips would ship at 733MHz, far slower than Intel's recent 1GHz offerings for its 32-bit...
That outside technology competes directly with Sun's UltraSparc processor family and Solaris version of the Unix operating system. As expected, Sun will debut a faster 1.2GHz processor and lower prices for its top-end and midrange servers, tout its...
The HP Integrity cx2600 server that Motorola will use is based on Intel's Itanium processor, signaling that there's life left in the chipmaker's hard-luck product line. Intel has spent more than a billion dollars in the past decade on chip...
Systems using Intel Itanium processors, another mainstream alternative and the chip used in Columbia, increased from 61 to 87 over the same period. IBM's Power family of processors are used in 62 systems, down from 75 in June.
HP said in a statement that its investment is designed to "vault Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers to the leadership position in the $20bn market currently served by RISC processors". As HP and Intel continue to invest in server innovation...
HP's Integrity range of systems runs on the Intel Itanium line of processors. The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see Parallels Virtuozzo Containers running on HP Integrity servers, including the largest, 64-processor HP Integrity Superdome servers.
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