The Itanium is Intel's first 64-bit processor based on the IA-64 architecture which is expected to power high-end servers and workstations. Michael Pope, Intel's director of ebusiness solutions marketing, welcomed the release and said it will help...
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...
Itanium 2 runs in direct competition with Sun UltraSparc processors, which are 64-bit and have been for years - which means there is plenty of software out there already taking advantage of them. Madison, the successor to McKinley (which became the...
Intel disclosed an electrical problem on Monday that it says can cause computers using its flagship Itanium 2 processor to behave erratically or crash. Still, the problem is a black eye for Intel, which has been positioning its Itanium line to take...
Indeed it is worthwhile noting that while technical deployments of this technology usually grab the headlines, the commercial use of Itanium is growing steadily. This is likely to be one of those occasions as last week saw vendor Intel introduce...
Despite a high-profile launch, HP and Intel's Itanium chip has failed to make much of a splash. Could it be that despite Itanium delays and disappointments, the transition from PA-Risc and Alpha is going better for HP than expected?